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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... the same . Some of the judgements on people and events may have seemed extravagant and provoca- tive , but these may also serve as reliable evidence of a particular way of seeing . There was a great temptation to xxii FOREWORD.
... the same . Some of the judgements on people and events may have seemed extravagant and provoca- tive , but these may also serve as reliable evidence of a particular way of seeing . There was a great temptation to xxii FOREWORD.
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... particular ceremony of the Souls which I witnessed four years ago in the suburbs of Port - au - Prince . The details of this ceremony are very elaborate ; but the outline , the conscious style of intention , is quite simple . In our ...
... particular ceremony of the Souls which I witnessed four years ago in the suburbs of Port - au - Prince . The details of this ceremony are very elaborate ; but the outline , the conscious style of intention , is quite simple . In our ...
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... particular ceremony had been ' allowed . ' But there are times when the Law decrees that there should be no Vodum rites . The peasants find it difficult to obey . Fearful of being found in their wooden tonelles , they will perform their ...
... particular ceremony had been ' allowed . ' But there are times when the Law decrees that there should be no Vodum rites . The peasants find it difficult to obey . Fearful of being found in their wooden tonelles , they will perform their ...
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... particular period in African history , I see The Tempest against the background of England's experiment in colonisation . Consider- ing the range of Shakespeare's curiosity , and the fact that these matters were being feverishly ...
... particular period in African history , I see The Tempest against the background of England's experiment in colonisation . Consider- ing the range of Shakespeare's curiosity , and the fact that these matters were being feverishly ...
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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 |