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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... Speaking , " " Evidence and Example , " and " A Way of Seeing . " He represents himself as both witness to and participant in a great collective movement . He constructs the prototypical paradigm of the colonial exile around his own ...
... Speaking , " " Evidence and Example , " and " A Way of Seeing . " He represents himself as both witness to and participant in a great collective movement . He constructs the prototypical paradigm of the colonial exile around his own ...
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George Lamming. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 9 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 ...
George Lamming. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 9 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 ...
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... speak , since their release from that purgatory of Water cannot be realised until they have fulfilled the contract which this ceremony symbolises . The Dead need to speak if they are going to enter that eternity which will be their last ...
... speak , since their release from that purgatory of Water cannot be realised until they have fulfilled the contract which this ceremony symbolises . The Dead need to speak if they are going to enter that eternity which will be their last ...
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... speak of matters which it must have been difficult to raise before ; and through the same medium , the living learn and understand what the Dead tongues have uttered . Revenge , guilt , redemption , and some future expectation make for ...
... speak of matters which it must have been difficult to raise before ; and through the same medium , the living learn and understand what the Dead tongues have uttered . Revenge , guilt , redemption , and some future expectation make for ...
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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 |