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Title:
The pleasures of exile
Identifier:
PR9230.9.L25P541960
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Notes:
William Belcher was the jacket designer. A collection of essays about colonialism and imperialism, both personal narrative and theory, The Pleasures of Exile remains seminal in the formation of an aesthetic and a politics in the Eastern Caribbean. The use of personal narrative as an organic element of theory is idiosyncratically and quintessentially Caribbean and would inflect much of future postmodern theory. Lamming's reading of The Tempest here extends that of C.L.R. James in The Black Jacobins (1938) as he explores and develops a particular concept of hybridity in the Caliban/Prospero figures as representing an organically conjoined consciousness for the Caribbean. The Caliban figure is a profoundly shaping influence in identity formation not only for theorists writing in English but for those of the Spanish Caribbean (Marti, Rettamar - Cuba) and the French (Césaire - Martinique). Lamming preserves a nearly conversational, occasionally polemical tone throughout the essays.


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Copyright not evaluated
Access:
Public access

Subject--Topic:
Book jackets

Author:
Lamming, George, 1927-
Contributor:
Belcher, William

Publisher:
M. Joseph
Place of Publication:
London (England)
Date of Publication:
1960

Form:
Illustrated works
Color:
Color

Collection Information


Collection:
H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
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Repository:
University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Repository Collection Type:
Rare Books
Repository Location:
Richard J. Daley Library