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The Pleasures of Exile

Author : George Lamming
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780472064663

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An examination of the effects of colonialism on those who are held in check

Natives of My Person

Author : George Lamming
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 24,51 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780472064670

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This allegorical novel tells the story of a journey of a slave ship toward San Christobal during the early colonial period.

Water with Berries

Author : George Lamming
Publisher : Caribbean Modern Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,72 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781845231675

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Teeton 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.

Season of Adventure

Author : George Lamming
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780472066551

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Caribbean novelist George Lamming's classic novel of magic, politics, and cultural identity

Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674003026

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With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays offers evidence of how much the fully engaged critical mind can contribute to the reservoir of value, thought, and action essential to our lives and culture.

Wonder and Exile in the New World

Author : Alex Nava
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 2013-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271063300

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In Wonder and Exile in the New World, Alex Nava explores the border regions between wonder and exile, particularly in relation to the New World. It traces the preoccupation with the concept of wonder in the history of the Americas, beginning with the first European encounters, goes on to investigate later representations in the Baroque age, and ultimately enters the twentieth century with the emergence of so-called magical realism. In telling the story of wonder in the New World, Nava gives special attention to the part it played in the history of violence and exile, either as a force that supported and reinforced the Conquest or as a voice of resistance and decolonization. Focusing on the work of New World explorers, writers, and poets—and their literary descendants—Nava finds that wonder and exile have been two of the most significant metaphors within Latin American cultural, literary, and religious representations. Beginning with the period of the Conquest, especially with Cabeza de Vaca and Las Casas, continuing through the Baroque with Cervantes and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and moving into the twentieth century with Alejo Carpentier and Miguel Ángel Asturias, Nava produces a historical study of Latin American narrative in which religious and theological perspectives figure prominently.

The Emigrants

Author : George Lamming
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780472064700

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A compelling and intricate novel of emigration and the effects of colonialism on a people

In the Castle of My Skin

Author : George Lamming
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0241296080

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'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

Three Rings

Author : Daniel Mendelsohn
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1681376393

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A memoir, biography, work of history, and literary criticism all in one, this moving book tells the story of three exiled writers—Erich Auerbach, François Fénelon, and W. G. Sebald—and their relationship with the classics, from Homer to Mimesis. In a genre-defying book hailed as “exquisite” (The New York Times) and “spectacular” (The Times Literary Supplement), the best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own—works that pondered the nature of narrative itself: Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler’s Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul; François Fénelon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey, The Adventures of Telemachus—a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for a hundred years—resulted in his banishment; and the German novelist W.G. Sebald, self-exiled to England, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement, nostalgia, and separation from home. Intertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn’s struggle to write two of his own books—a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his elderly father—that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering. As Three Rings moves to its startling conclusion, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders, languages, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history, art and life.