The Pleasures of ExileUniversity of Michigan Press, 1992 - 232 sidor In The Pleasures of Exile, as in his other works, George Lamming embraces the intricate issues of colonization and decolonization with a canny combination of playfulness and seriousness, irony and commitment. " It] is a reciprocal process," Lamming observes, "to be a colonial is to be a man in a certain relation; and this relation is an example of exile." Through a series of interrelated essays, The Pleasures of Exile explores the cultural politics and relationships created in the crucible of colonization. Drawing on Shakespeare's The Tempest and C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins, as well as his own fiction and poetry, Lamming deftly locates the reader in a specific intellectual and cultural domain while conjuring a rich and varied spectrum of physical, intellectual, psychological, and cultural responses to colonialism. "My subject," he writes, "is the migration of the West Indian writer, as colonial and exile, from his native kingdom, once inhabited by Caliban, to the tempestuous island of Prospero's and his language. This book is a report on one man's way of seeing." |
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Sida x
... original space of his birth and his personal history as a necessary beginning . My generation had looked at life with black skins and blue eyes , but only our own painful , strenuous looking , the learning of look- ing , could find ...
... original space of his birth and his personal history as a necessary beginning . My generation had looked at life with black skins and blue eyes , but only our own painful , strenuous looking , the learning of look- ing , could find ...
Sida xi
... original cultural space of his own creation . The autobiographical framework of The Pleasures of Exile , with its calculated historical specificity , anticipates C. L. R. James's use of autobiography as an intellectual and cultural ...
... original cultural space of his own creation . The autobiographical framework of The Pleasures of Exile , with its calculated historical specificity , anticipates C. L. R. James's use of autobiography as an intellectual and cultural ...
Sida xii
... original space , as the activating dynamic of his writerly resistance . His voluntary exile is not the alienation of " the neurotic intellectual , " alone and rudder- less ( Pleasures , 152 ) . He identifies with a historically aware ...
... original space , as the activating dynamic of his writerly resistance . His voluntary exile is not the alienation of " the neurotic intellectual , " alone and rudder- less ( Pleasures , 152 ) . He identifies with a historically aware ...
Sida xiii
... original knowl- edge , the knowledge of his original fact " ( 11 ) as colonial subject . The shifting frames of identity in The Pleasures of Exile , from " the field of vision to the space of writing , " from personal experience to ...
... original knowl- edge , the knowledge of his original fact " ( 11 ) as colonial subject . The shifting frames of identity in The Pleasures of Exile , from " the field of vision to the space of writing , " from personal experience to ...
Sida xiv
... original sense of rootedness " ( 101 ) , who " keeps answering back " and refuses to be silent ( 102 ) . Transformed into a twentieth - century cultural icon , Lamming's Caliban recognizes and uses his enslavement by Prospero as a ...
... original sense of rootedness " ( 101 ) , who " keeps answering back " and refuses to be silent ( 102 ) . Transformed into a twentieth - century cultural icon , Lamming's Caliban recognizes and uses his enslavement by Prospero as a ...
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In the Beginning | 14 |
The Occasion for Speaking | 23 |
Evidence and Example | 51 |
A Way of Seeing | 56 |
Conflict and Illusion | 86 |
A Monster A Child A Slave | 95 |
Caliban Orders History | 118 |
Ishmael at Home | 151 |
The African Presence | 160 |
Journey to an Explanation | 211 |
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Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy Paget Henry Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2000 |