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- catalog abstract "Ever present in the work of contemporary Barbadian novelist George Lamming, author of In the Castle of My Skin, Natives of My Person, The Emigrants, and The Pleasures of Exile, are the subjects of history and revolution. In Caliban's Curse, Supriya Nair traces these themes and situates Lamming's work within the ongoing discourses of nationalism and identity. Retracing the history of colonial intervention in the anglophone Caribbean and seeking connections between Africa, the Caribbean, and England, Caliban's Curse moves beyond the popular perception of the archipelago as an ahistorical tourist paradise and presents the islands as a space populated by the tragic and triumphant cultures of the black diaspora. Caliban's Curse draws upon a range of theories - postcolonial, Marxist, and feminist - to contextualize the black diaspora of the modern Caribbean through one of its primary anglophone novelists. Putting George Lamming in conversation with such contemporaries as C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, and Wilson Harris, Nair argues that Lamming's works expand the protest of Shakespeare's Caliban to articulate a reinvention of Caribbean cultures. Both cursed by and cursing the weight of colonial history, Lamming works against the paralysis induced by such an encounter; his work serves to rewrite canonical icons and to reimagine popular cultures. Caliban's Curse also explores related moments of the colonial enterprise - its emergence in sea voyages, its consolidation through ideological education, its postemancipation consequences of renewed migrations, and the continuous struggle for redefinition and revolution - as they appear in the complex narratives and imaginative historical renderings of George Lamming.".
- catalog contributor b9658405.
- catalog coverage "Caribbean Area In literature.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Caliban's Curse also explores related moments of the colonial enterprise - its emergence in sea voyages, its consolidation through ideological education, its postemancipation consequences of renewed migrations, and the continuous struggle for redefinition and revolution - as they appear in the complex narratives and imaginative historical renderings of George Lamming.".
- catalog description "Caliban's Curse draws upon a range of theories - postcolonial, Marxist, and feminist - to contextualize the black diaspora of the modern Caribbean through one of its primary anglophone novelists. Putting George Lamming in conversation with such contemporaries as C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, and Wilson Harris, Nair argues that Lamming's works expand the protest of Shakespeare's Caliban to articulate a reinvention of Caribbean cultures. Both cursed by and cursing the weight of colonial history, Lamming works against the paralysis induced by such an encounter; his work serves to rewrite canonical icons and to reimagine popular cultures.".
- catalog description "Ever present in the work of contemporary Barbadian novelist George Lamming, author of In the Castle of My Skin, Natives of My Person, The Emigrants, and The Pleasures of Exile, are the subjects of history and revolution. In Caliban's Curse, Supriya Nair traces these themes and situates Lamming's work within the ongoing discourses of nationalism and identity. Retracing the history of colonial intervention in the anglophone Caribbean and seeking connections between Africa, the Caribbean, and England, Caliban's Curse moves beyond the popular perception of the archipelago as an ahistorical tourist paradise and presents the islands as a space populated by the tragic and triumphant cultures of the black diaspora.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-166) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: George Lamming's "Occasion for Speaking" -- pt. 1. Voyages. 1. Allegory, Parody, and Alterity in Natives of My Person. 2. Inside the Trojan Horse: England Beseiged in The Emigrants and Water With Berries -- pt. 2. Intellectuals. 3. Making History in In the Castle of My Skin. 4. Invented Histories: National Revolution in Season of Adventure and Of Age and Innocence -- Conclusion: "We Are a Future They Must Learn."".
- catalog extent "viii, 171 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Caliban's curse.".
- catalog identifier "0472107178 (hardcover : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Caliban's curse.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation "Caliban's curse.".
- catalog spatial "Caribbean Area In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Caribbean Area.".
- catalog subject "813 20".
- catalog subject "Group identity in literature.".
- catalog subject "Lamming, George, 1927- Knowledge History.".
- catalog subject "Literature and history Caribbean Area.".
- catalog subject "PR9230.9.L25 Z79 1996".
- catalog subject "West Indians in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: George Lamming's "Occasion for Speaking" -- pt. 1. Voyages. 1. Allegory, Parody, and Alterity in Natives of My Person. 2. Inside the Trojan Horse: England Beseiged in The Emigrants and Water With Berries -- pt. 2. Intellectuals. 3. Making History in In the Castle of My Skin. 4. Invented Histories: National Revolution in Season of Adventure and Of Age and Innocence -- Conclusion: "We Are a Future They Must Learn."".
- catalog title "Caliban's curse : George Lamming and the revisioning of history / Supriya Nair.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".