The Pleasures of ExileUniversity of Michigan Press, 1992 - 232 стор. 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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Сторінка ix
... 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 . Self acquires meaning and value as ...
... 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 . Self acquires meaning and value as ...
Сторінка x
... relation to subject peoples everywhere : " It is that fixed point in intellectal space where a writer stands to view the struggles , hopes , and sufferings of his people " ( 400 ) . In The Pleasures of Exile , perspective is demystified ...
... relation to subject peoples everywhere : " It is that fixed point in intellectal space where a writer stands to view the struggles , hopes , and sufferings of his people " ( 400 ) . In The Pleasures of Exile , perspective is demystified ...
Сторінка xiii
... experience , vast areas of which remain unexplored . You are the other , according to your way of seeing me in relation to yourself . ( 12 ) Lamming's emphasis on dialogue contextualizes the aggressive in- tent of FOREWORD xiii.
... experience , vast areas of which remain unexplored . You are the other , according to your way of seeing me in relation to yourself . ( 12 ) Lamming's emphasis on dialogue contextualizes the aggressive in- tent of FOREWORD xiii.
Сторінка xvii
... relationship between literature and history in sustaining the appa- ratus of empire and , conversely , in dismantling that apparatus and constructing alternatives permeates the self - conscious design of this multifaceted text . In The ...
... relationship between literature and history in sustaining the appa- ratus of empire and , conversely , in dismantling that apparatus and constructing alternatives permeates the self - conscious design of this multifaceted text . In The ...
Сторінка xviii
... relations among Caliban , Ariel , and Prospero once they entered the post - colonial era " ( Nixon 576 ) . That remains to be seen in the Caribbean , where Caliban has been reinvented as a spirit of revolt , as a landscape and a human ...
... relations among Caliban , Ariel , and Prospero once they entered the post - colonial era " ( Nixon 576 ) . That remains to be seen in the Caribbean , where Caliban has been reinvented as a spirit of revolt , as a landscape and a human ...
Зміст
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 Обмежений попередній перегляд - 2000 |