The Pleasures of Exile
Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780472064663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the effects of colonialism on those who are held in check
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Postcolonial Interpretation of George Lamming's the Pleasures of Exile
Author: Abdul Karim Ruman
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-09-22
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9781517477943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is helpful especially for the researchers of postcolonial literature. It will also help the readers of historiographic meta fiction.
In the Castle of My Skin
Author: George Lamming
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2017-05-25
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0241296080
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin' Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet mischief crab catching, teasing preachers and playing among the pumpkin vines. His sleepy fishing village in 1930s Barbados is overseen by the English landlord who lives on the hill, just as their 'Little England' is watched over by the Mother Country. Yet gradually, G. finds himself awakening to the violence and injustice that lurk beneath the apparent order of things. As the world he knows begins to crumble, revealing the bruising secret at its heart, he is spurred ever closer to a life-changing decision. Lyrical and unsettling, George Lamming's autobiographical coming-of-age novel is a story of tragic innocence amid the collapse of colonial rule. 'Rich and riotous' The Times 'Its poetic imaginative writing has never been surpassed' Tribune
Water with Berries
Author: George Lamming
Publisher: Caribbean Modern Classics
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781845231675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTeeton lives multiple lives in England. One is with a bohemian group of Caribbean artist exiles; another is his curiously intimate mother-son relationship with his English landlady. He is aldo enmeshed in a revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow a reactionary Caribbean government. Teeton keeps each aspect of his life in compartments but when the revolt begins, his once separate worlds begin to fuse together with disastrous results.
The Emigrants
Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780472064700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling and intricate novel of emigration and the effects of colonialism on a people
Brown Girl, Brownstones
Author: Paule Marshall
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-03-06
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0486118606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this 1953 coming-of-age novel centers on the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. "Passionate, compelling." — Saturday Review. "Remarkable for its courage." — The New Yorker.
The Post-colonial Studies Reader
Author: Bill Ashcroft
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 618
ISBN-13: 9780415345651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoasting new extracts from major works in the field, as well as an impressive list of contributors, this second edition of a bestselling Reader is an invaluable introduction to the most seminal texts in post-colonial theory and criticism.
The Tempest and Its Travels
Author: Peter Hulme
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781861890665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tempest and its Travels offers a new map of the play by means of an innovative collection of historical, critical, and creative texts and images.
The Convict and the Colonel
Author: Richard Price
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780822338239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn election day massacre in colonial Martinique. A "mad" artist who lives in a cave. A satirical wooden bust of a white colonel. The artist's banishment to the Devil's Island penal colony for "impertinence." And a young anthropologist who arrives in Martinique in 1962, on the eve of massive modernization. In a stunning combination of scholarship and storytelling, the award-winning anthropologist Richard Price draws on long-term ethnography, archival documents, cinema and street theater, and Caribbean fiction and poetry to explore how one generation's powerful historical metaphors could so quickly become the next generation's trivial pursuit, how memories of oppression, inequality, and struggle could so easily become replaced by nostalgia, complicity, and celebration. "A superb callaloo of a book. . . . Richard Price has a remarkable grasp of the literatures of the Caribbean, and draws on this resource to explore the underlying insanity of the colonial experience, as well as the bewildering complexities of the postcolonial world where memory is erased or invented according to the demands of a market modernity."--George Lamming, author of The Pleasures of Exile "By beautifully crafting elements as disparate as biographical data, sociological studies, literary sources, and archival documents, Richard Price's research is more fascinating than a piece of fiction."--Maryse Condé, author of I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem "Price does it again. Mixing eras, genres, and voices, he carries the reader through the contradictory streams of historical consciousness in the Caribbean island of Martinique. The result is as complex and as enticing as the sea it evokes."--Michel-Rolph Trouillot, author of Silencing the Past "Filled with insights that are at once theoretical, methodological, and ethnographic, The Convict and the Colonel is required reading for anyone interested in colonialism, memory, and contemporary Caribbean societies."--Jennifer Cole, American Ethnologist
Representations of the Intellectual
Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-10-24
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 0307829626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn these six essays--delivered on the BBC as the prestigious Reith Lectures--Edward Said addresses the ways in which the intellectual can best serve society in the light of a heavily compromised media and of special interest groups who are protected at the cost of larger community concerns. Said suggests a recasting of the intellectual's vision to resist the lures of power, money, and specialization. In these pieces, Said eloquently illustrates his arguments by drawing on such writers as Antonio Gramsci, Jean-Paul Sartre, Regis Debray, Julien Benda, and Theodore Adorno, and by discussing current events and celebrated figures in the world of science and politics: Robert Oppenheimer, Henry Kissinger, Dan Quayle, Vietnam and the Gulf War. Said sees the modern intellectual as an editor, journalist, academic, or political adviser--in other words, a highly specialized professional--who has moved from a position of independence to an alliance with powerful corporate, institutional, or governmental organizations. He concludes that it is the exile-immigrant, the expatriate, and the amateur who must uphold the traditional role of the intellectual as the voice of integrity and courage, able to speak out against those in power.
