The Pleasures of Exile by George Lamming

The Pleasures of Exile by George Lamming

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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ISBN 13	9780472064663
ISBN 10	0472064665
Titel	The Pleasures of Exile
Autor	George Lamming
Serie	Ann Arbor Paperbacks
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	The University of Michigan Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1992-10-31
Seitenanzahl	264
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.