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The Pleasures of Exile (Paperback, New ed)
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The Pleasures of Exile (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Pluto Classics
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'Migration in the 50s and 60s was formative for a whole generation
of Caribbean writers, artists and intellectuals who, as Lamming
himself says, became 'West Indian' in London. The Pleasures of
Exile is simply the most poignant, eloquent, insightful and poetic
set of reflections on that experience.' Stuart Hall 'The passing of
more than 40 years hasn't dulled the sheer brazen confidence with
which George Lamming brought a West Indian way of seeing to British
life and literature.' Peter Hulme 'George Lamming is one of the
most important writers in the African diaspora, and one whose work
has touched illuminatingly on significant aspects of colonialism,
postcolonialism, and other matters vitally important to our
comprehension of the worlds in which we live.' Michael Awkward
George Lamming is one of the major figures in late twentieth
century literature: his novels -- including In the Castle of My
Skin (1953) -- were part of the social, cultural, and political
revolution of modern Black writing. The Pleasures of Exile,
originally published in 1960, is Lamming's first work of
non-fiction. Written during his self-imposed exile in Britain, it
explores themes of identity formation. Incorporating memoirs of his
own experience, Lamming draws upon Shakespeare's The Tempest and
CLR James's The Black Jacobins, as well as his own fiction and
poetry. He conjures a rich spectrum of physical, intellectual,
psychological and cultural responses to colonialism. This new
edition, with a new preface and introduction, reveals a writer far
ahead of his time: written before the term 'post-colonial' was
invented, the book explores issues that are central to studies of
literature today, including the politics of migration, cultural
hybridity and minority discourse.
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