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 viii
... presence , he cri- tiques British cultural institutions from Shakespeare to the Insti- tute of Contemporary Arts , the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) , the Times Literary Supplement , and the Spectator . He names an ...
... presence , he cri- tiques British cultural institutions from Shakespeare to the Insti- tute of Contemporary Arts , the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) , the Times Literary Supplement , and the Spectator . He names an ...
Sida ix
... presence in the text lies in the relationship between self - reflection and the performance of critical reading . He is observer of his own experience and of a wide range of experience within his cultural domain as colonial subject ...
... presence in the text lies in the relationship between self - reflection and the performance of critical reading . He is observer of his own experience and of a wide range of experience within his cultural domain as colonial subject ...
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... presence . The narrating " I " is authoritative , combative , and judg- mental and is identified with the author quite explicitly . Self - imag- ing is skewed purposefully to personal reminiscences as method and substance of a self ...
... presence . The narrating " I " is authoritative , combative , and judg- mental and is identified with the author quite explicitly . Self - imag- ing is skewed purposefully to personal reminiscences as method and substance of a self ...
Sida xx
... Presence " that Lamming includes notes ostensibly written while traveling in West Africa and visiting friends in New York . The text is usefully compared with Claude McKay's A Long Way from Home as a self - study of the Caribbean writer ...
... Presence " that Lamming includes notes ostensibly written while traveling in West Africa and visiting friends in New York . The text is usefully compared with Claude McKay's A Long Way from Home as a self - study of the Caribbean writer ...
Sida xxi
... presence . In a startling replay of Claude McKay's encounter with the colonial Jamaica of his childhood in Casablanca and Marrakesh , 16 Lamming sees him- self in a troop of Boy Scouts assembled at the airport in Ghana to welcome a ...
... presence . In a startling replay of Claude McKay's encounter with the colonial Jamaica of his childhood in Casablanca and Marrakesh , 16 Lamming sees him- self in a troop of Boy Scouts assembled at the airport in Ghana to welcome 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 |