The Pleasures of Exile

The Pleasures of Exile [1st ed.]
Lamming, George
London : M. Joseph, 1960
232 p. ; 22 cm

A collection of essays 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 CLR 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 the identity formation not only for theorists writing in English but for those of the Spanish Caribbean (Marti; Rettamar – Cuba) and the French (Cesaire – Martinque). Lamming preserves a nearly conversational, occasionally polemical tone throughout the essays.

H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago Library
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PR9230.9.L25 P54 1960

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