Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 517 g
Reihe: Cross/Cultures
George Lamming’s Fiction as Decolonizing Project
Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 517 g
Reihe: Cross/Cultures
ISBN: 978-90-420-1431-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
Written from a postcolonial perspective, the study draws also on contemporary feminist criticism in order to examine Lamming's characteristically simplistic depiction of female characters in terms of a greater willingness to embody the neocolonial. The book starts by addressing the place Lamming's work occupies both within postcolonial writing at large and specifically within Caribbean literature. Subsequent chapters provide close textual readings of Lamming's six novels, paired in terms of their foregrounding of issues of race, gender and class. Despite a clear shift in Lamming's thematic focus on the rewriting of Caliban's project, with his last novel offering a basis for a re-imagining of the post/colonial encounter, there remains a perturbing inability to relinquish the privileged stance afforded the postcolonial intellectual in self-imposed exile (cultural, much more than geographical). The book represents an important contribution to criticism on the work of one of the most influential voices in postcolonial literature of the last fifty years.
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Acknowledgements. 1 The Luxury of Nationalist Despair. 2 Race, Identity and the National Idea(l). 3 Gender, Sexuality and the Nation. 4 The Past is the Future. 5 Conclusion. Works cited.