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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... turns self- analysis into a method of observation , representation , and cultural assessment . His writerly disposition becomes an index of the de- fects and possibilities of his historical moment . In The Pleasures of Exile , Lamming ...
... turns self- analysis into a method of observation , representation , and cultural assessment . His writerly disposition becomes an index of the de- fects and possibilities of his historical moment . In The Pleasures of Exile , Lamming ...
Сторінка xvi
... turning inside out of old forms , under the influence of new stimuli which lie outside of art ” ( 37 ) . This is the essence of Walcott's aesthetic and ideological resolution of the Manichaean conflicts engendered by slavery and ...
... turning inside out of old forms , under the influence of new stimuli which lie outside of art ” ( 37 ) . This is the essence of Walcott's aesthetic and ideological resolution of the Manichaean conflicts engendered by slavery and ...
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... turns their com- mon experience into an oppositional space . In some real , though extraordinary way , Caliban and Miranda are seen side by side : opposite and contiguous at the same time . They share an ignorance that is also the ...
... turns their com- mon experience into an oppositional space . In some real , though extraordinary way , Caliban and Miranda are seen side by side : opposite and contiguous at the same time . They share an ignorance that is also the ...
Сторінка xxiv
... turn , emigration and exile , identity and ethnicity , language , his- tory , myth and legend , the interdependence of oral and written traditions , and the role of the writer in a time of revolutionary social change . It also provides ...
... turn , emigration and exile , identity and ethnicity , language , his- tory , myth and legend , the interdependence of oral and written traditions , and the role of the writer in a time of revolutionary social change . It also provides ...
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... turn out to be Innocent . That is unfortunate , for I am working on the fundamental belief that there are no degrees of innocence . Involvement in crime , whether as witness , or an accomplice , makes innocence impossible . To be ...
... turn out to be Innocent . That is unfortunate , for I am working on the fundamental belief that there are no degrees of innocence . Involvement in crime , whether as witness , or an accomplice , makes innocence impossible . To be ...
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 |