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 ix
... privileged interpreter of his own historical moment . The form and value of his organizing and legitimizing presence in the text lies in the relationship between self - reflection and the performance of critical reading . He is observer ...
... privileged interpreter of his own historical moment . The form and value of his organizing and legitimizing presence in the text lies in the relationship between self - reflection and the performance of critical reading . He is observer ...
Sida x
... privilege of British intellectuals and institutions . In " What the Twilight Says : An Overture , " Derek Walcott writes about " the learning of looking " that restores the subject colonial writer to the original space of his birth and ...
... privilege of British intellectuals and institutions . In " What the Twilight Says : An Overture , " Derek Walcott writes about " the learning of looking " that restores the subject colonial writer to the original space of his birth and ...
Sida xii
... privileged Prospero , too old and too privileged to pay attention to the needs of his own native Calibans " ( 152 ) . His dialogue with C. L. R. James , identified as an inspirational fellow- traveler , models his ideal of intellectual ...
... privileged Prospero , too old and too privileged to pay attention to the needs of his own native Calibans " ( 152 ) . His dialogue with C. L. R. James , identified as an inspirational fellow- traveler , models his ideal of intellectual ...
Sida xiii
... privileges a Caribbean way of seeing . Dialogue is prelude to awareness , and awareness is " a minimum condition for attaining freedom " ( Plea- sures , 12 ) . Lamming repeatedly calls attention to the dialogic na- ture of the text ; to ...
... privileges a Caribbean way of seeing . Dialogue is prelude to awareness , and awareness is " a minimum condition for attaining freedom " ( Plea- sures , 12 ) . Lamming repeatedly calls attention to the dialogic na- ture of the text ; to ...
Sida xviii
... privilege of the English text by offering his own unorthodox evaluation of the thought systems , values , and ideals in The Tempest as evidence of a pervasive decadence and corruption in colonialism from its inception . Using The ...
... privilege of the English text by offering his own unorthodox evaluation of the thought systems , values , and ideals in The Tempest as evidence of a pervasive decadence and corruption in colonialism from its inception . Using The ...
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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 |