Caliban's Curse: George Lamming and the Revisioning of HistoryUniversity of Michigan Press, 1996 - 171 من الصفحات Ever present in the work of contemporary Barbadian novelist George Lamming, author of In the Castle of My Skin, Natives of My Person, The Emigrants, and The Pleasures of Exile, are the subjects of history and revolution. In Caliban's Curse, Supriya M. Nair traces these themes and situates Lamming's work within the ongoing discourses of nationalism and identity. Retracing the history of colonial intervention in the anglophone Caribbean and seeking connections among Africa, the Caribbean, and England, Caliban's Curse moves beyond the popular perception of the archipelago as an ahistorical tourist paradise and presents the islands as a space populated by the tragic and triumphant cultures of the black diaspora. Caliban's Curse draws upon a range of theories--postcolonial, Marxist, and feminist--to contextualize the black diaspora of the modern Caribbean through one of its primary anglophone novelists. Putting George Lamming in conversation with such contemporaries as C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, and Wilson Harris, Nair argues that Lamming's works expand the protest of Shakespeare's Caliban to articulate a reinvention of Caribbean cultures. Both cursed by and cursing the weight of colonial history, Lamming works against the paralysis induced by such an encounter; his work serves to rewrite canonical icons and to reimagine popular cultures. "Supriya Nair writes about the problems of history and social revolution with passion and clarity and an amazing range of critical and cultural reference. . . . She brings to existing studies of Lamming a wide and sustained knowledge of the forces that have shaped the West Indian novel, and the wider postcolonial debates in which these novels are read and discussed." --Simon Gikandi, University of Michigan Supriya Nair is Associate Professor of English, Tulane University. |
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... National Revolution in Season of Adventure and Of Age and Innocence 105 Conclusion : " We Are a Future They Must Learn " 137 Notes 145 Selected Bibliography 159 Index 167 Introduction George Lamming's " Occasion for Speaking " And when.
... National Revolution in Season of Adventure and Of Age and Innocence 105 Conclusion : " We Are a Future They Must Learn " 137 Notes 145 Selected Bibliography 159 Index 167 Introduction George Lamming's " Occasion for Speaking " And when.
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George Lammings Occasion for Speaking | 1 |
Allegory Parody and Alterity | 27 |
Beseiged in The Emigrants and Water With Berries | 55 |
Making History in In the Castle of My Skin | 79 |
National Revolution | 105 |
We Are a Future They Must Learn | 137 |
Notes | 145 |
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African allegory Andaiye Ann Arbor argues Barbados British C. L. R. James Caliban Caribbean Literature Castle characters claims colonialist context Conversations critique culture Derek Walcott diaspora discourse dominant drums emerges Emigrants emphasis in original empire England Essays Fanon fiction Fola Fola's Frantz Fanon George Lamming Haitian Haitian Revolution History of Barbados identity imagination immigrants imperial initial intellectual interview island labor Lamming's novels land literary London metaphor metropolis Michigan Press Middle Passage migration myth narrative narrator nation Natives neocolonial past peasant Pleasures of Exile politics postcolonial Prospero's racial racism reprint resistance revolution riots rituals role San Cristobal says Season of Adventure seems sense Shephard Skin slaves social space struggle Teeton tion tradition trans Tribe Boys Trinidad University of Michigan University Press V. S. Naipaul village violence Vodoun Voyages Walcott Water With Berries West Indian Writers West Indies Wilson Harris women writing York