George Lamming

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The Emigrants
by George Lamming. 282 pgs.

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1: A Voyage

2: Rooms and Residents

3: Another Time
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Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature (Chap. 2 "From Exile to Nationalism: The Early Novels of George Lamming")
by Simon Gikandi. 262 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Modernism and the Origins of Caribbean Literature

1: Caribbean Modernist Discourse: Writing, Exile, and Tradition

2: From Exile to Nationalism: The Early Novels of George Lamming

3: Beyond the Kala-Pani: The Trinidad Novels of Samuel Selvon

4: The Deformation of Modernism: The Allegory of History in Carpentier's El Siglo de Las Luces

5: Modernism and the Masks of History: The Novels of Paule Marshall

6: Writing after Colonialism: Crick Crack, Monkey and Beka Lamb

7: Narration at the Postcolonial Moment: History and Representation in Abeng

Conclusion

Index
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Caliban in Exile: The Outsider in Caribbean Fiction (Chap. 3 "The Tormented Spirit: George Lamming and the Tragic Sense of Life")
by Margaret Paul Joseph. 152 pgs.

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The Caliban-Prospero encounter in Shakespeare's The Tempest has evolved as a metaphor for the colonial experience. This book utilizes the Caliban symbol in examining the influence of colonialism in Caribbean literature, focusing on three major writers: Jean Rhys of Dominica, George Lamming of Barbados, and Sam Selvon of Trinidad. The novels chosen are set in England where the writers and their characters experience the alienation of the exiled--unwelcome in Prospero's home country. Other Caribbean writers are included in the analysis, and the volume concludes by examining contemporary writers for whom Caliban's role appears to be shifting beyond physical exile.

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Preface

1: Caliban the Excluded

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2: Bootless Inquisition": Jean Rhys and the Mirror of Exile"

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3: The Tormented Spirit: George Lamming and the Tragic Sense of Life

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4: Caliban the Calypsonian: The Ballad of Sam Selvon

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5: Redefining Caliban: Toward a Brave New World

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Bibliography

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Reading the Shape of the World: Toward an International Cultural Studies (Chap. 10 "'Invented' Histories: Cultural Production in George Lamming's Season of Adventure")
by Richard Dienst, Henry Schwarz. 341 pgs.

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Credits

1: Introduction: Warning! Cautious Readers!

Acknowledgments

Part One Reordering the World

2: From Minor Literature, Across Border Culture, to Hyphenated Criticisms

Notes

3: Nationalisms in a Global Economy

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4: Cultural Studies and Civil Society

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5: The Futures Market: Global Economics and Cultural Studies

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Part Two: Old Empires and Contested Zones

6: Culture and Ideology in the Contemporary Arab World

7: The Archaeology of Banality: the Soviet Home

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8: Brazilian Critical Theory and the Question of "Cultural Studies"

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9: It's an X-Thing: the Culture of Black Nationalism in Contemporary South Africa

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Part Three: Narration and the Sense of Place

10: "Invented" Histories: Cultural Production in George Lamming's Season of Adventure

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11: Rethinking Migrancy: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity in Jasmine and the Buddha of Suburbia

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12: Homeboys: Nationalism, Colonialism, and Gender in Rabindranath Tagore's the Home and the World

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13: Sexing the Pundits: Gender, Romance, and Realism in the Cultural Politics of Colonial Bengal

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Part Four: The Dynamics of Recognition

14: In Search of Sweetness: the Diaspora as a Cultural Idea in the Work of Ama Ata Aidoo

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15: Where Do You Come From? Posing and the Culture of Roots

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16: About Face: the Talker Turns

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About the Book and Editors

About the Contributors

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Outsiders and Insiders: Perspectives of Third World Culture in British and Post-Colonial Fiction (Chap. V "The Demise of Empire: Alec Waugh and George Lamming")
by Michael Harris. 208 pgs.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter I: The Example of India: Rudyard Kipling and Salman Rushdie

Chapter II: Adventure and Conquest: Rider Haggard and Peter Abrahams

Chapter III: The Cultural Clash: Joyce Cary and Chinua Achebe

Chapter IV: The Struggle for Independence: Elspeth Huxley and Ngugi Wa Thiong'O

Chapter V: The Demise of Empire: Alec Waugh and George Lamming

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

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Anancy in the Great House: Ways of Reading West Indian Fiction (Includes discussion of George Lamming in multiple chapters)
by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Joyce Jonas. 156 pgs.

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This interdisciplinary study combines concepts of symbolic anthropology with traditional literary criticism to survey six novels by the Caribbean authors George Lamming and Wilson Harris. The author uses the West Indian icons of the Great House and Anancy to explore the conflict between oral and written communication and between folk culture and imperialist domination. The book's three essays discuss the collision of folk and imperialist cultures, the figure of the artist-in-the-text, and the anthropological concept of liminality as it applies to all types of oppressive exploitation. With its subtle literary readings and its philosophical commentary, this volume will be a significant resource.

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Foreword Post-Colonial Talk and the Critic as Anancy

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I Beyond the Great House

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Ii Clowns and Carnival

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Iii the Controlling I-Eye

Notes

Conclusion

NOTES

Bibliography

Index

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The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History (Discussion of George Lamming begins on p. 129)
by Jose David Saldidvar. 214 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Preface

I: Metahistory And Dependency

1: The Dialectics of Our America

2: Squeezed by the Banana Company

3: Chicano Border Narratives As Cultural Critique

II: Magical Narratives

4: The Real and the Marvelous In Charleston, South Carolina

5: The Hybridity of Culture In Arturo Lslas's the Rain God

III: Caliban And Resistance Cultures

6: The School of Caliban

Afterword: Postcolonial Borders, Dissent, And The Politics of the Possible

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References

Index

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Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("George Lamming (1927-)" begins on p. 264)
by Daryl Cumber Dance. 532 pgs.

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"Even when available elsewhere, information on these 50 English-language authors is sparse; the in-depth treatment here includes biography, description of major works and themes, summary of critical reception, and an exhaustive bibliography of works by and about each author. Both academic and public libraries will want to accept this invitation to another world." Library Journal

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1915)

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Michael Anthony (1932)

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Lindsay Barrett (1941)

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Louise Bennett (1919)

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Dionne Brand (1953)

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Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930)

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Erna Brodber (1940)

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Wayne Vincent Brown (1944)

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Jan Carew (1925)

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Martin Wylde Carter (1927)

Austin Clarke (1934)

Frank Collymore (1893-1980)

O. R. Dathorne (1934)

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Neville Dawes (1926-1984)

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Reinhard W. Sander Ralph de Boissiére (1907)

Jean D'Costa (1937)

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Herbert George de Lisser (1878-1944)

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John Joseph Maria Figueroa (1920)

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Wilson Harris (1921)

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John Hearne (1926)

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Roy A. K. Heath (1926)

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Frank E. M. Hercules (1917)

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Merle Hodge (1944)

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C. L. R. James (1901)

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Marion Patrick Jones (1934)

Ismith Khan (1925)

Jamaica Kincaid (1949)

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George Lamming (1927)

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Earl Lovelace (1935)

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Claude McKay (1889-1948)

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Anthony McNeill (1941)

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Roger Mais (1905-1955)

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Alfred H. Mendes (1897)

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Edgar Mittelholzer (1909-1965)

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Mervyn Morris (1937)

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V. S. Naipaul (1932)

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Orlando Patterson (1940)

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Vic Reid (1911)

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Jean Rhys (1890-1979)

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Garth St. Omer (1931)

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Andrew Salkey (1928)

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Dennis Scott (1939)

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Samuel Dickson Selvon (1923)

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A. J. Seymour (1914)

Michael Thelwell (1939)

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Derek Walcott (1930)

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Eric Walrond (1898-1966)

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Denis Williams (1923)

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Francis Williams (1700-1770)

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Sylvia Wynter (1928)

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