Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
An examination of the effects of colonialism on those who are held in check
The Pleasures of Exile
Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
An examination of the effects of colonialism on those who are held in check
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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
ISBN: 9780472064670
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This allegorical novel tells the story of a journey of a slave ship toward San Christobal during the early colonial period.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064670
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This allegorical novel tells the story of a journey of a slave ship toward San Christobal during the early colonial period.
Postcolonial Interpretation of George Lamming's the Pleasures of Exile
Author: Abdul Karim Ruman
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781517477943
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
This book is helpful especially for the researchers of postcolonial literature. It will also help the readers of historiographic meta fiction.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781517477943
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
This book is helpful especially for the researchers of postcolonial literature. It will also help the readers of historiographic meta fiction.
The Emigrants
Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A compelling and intricate novel of emigration and the effects of colonialism on a people
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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
ISBN: 0241296080
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
'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
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241296080
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
'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
Season of Adventure
Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472066551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Caribbean novelist George Lamming's classic novel of magic, politics, and cultural identity
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472066551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Caribbean novelist George Lamming's classic novel of magic, politics, and cultural identity
Water with Berries
Author: George Lamming
Publisher: Caribbean Modern Classics
ISBN: 9781845231675
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Caribbean Modern Classics
ISBN: 9781845231675
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674003026
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674003026
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
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.
The Tempest and Its Travels
Author: Peter Hulme
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861890665
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The 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.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861890665
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The 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.
Call Me Zebra
Author: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544944607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction "Hearken ye fellow misfits, migrants, outcasts, squint-eyed bibliophiles, library-haunters and book stall-stalkers: Here is a novel for you."--Wall Street Journal "A tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bola o and Borges." --New York Times Book Review Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction * Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A Publishers Weekly Bestseller Named a Best Book by: Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Boston Globe, Fodor's, Fast Company, Refinery29, Nylon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Book Riot, The Millions, Electric Literature, Bitch, Hello Giggles, Literary Hub, Shondaland, Bustle, Brit & Co., Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Read It Forward, Entropy Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, iBooks and Publishers Weekly From an award-winning young author, a novel following a feisty heroine's quest to reclaim her past through the power of literature--even as she navigates the murkier mysteries of love. Zebra is the last in a line of anarchists, atheists, and autodidacts. When war came, her family didn't fight; they took refuge in books. Now alone and in exile, Zebra leaves New York for Barcelona, retracing the journey she and her father made from Iran to the United States years ago. Books are Zebra's only companions--until she meets Ludo. Their connection is magnetic; their time together fraught. Zebra overwhelms him with her complex literary theories, her concern with death, and her obsession with history. He thinks she's unhinged; she thinks he's pedantic. Neither are wrong; neither can let the other go. They push and pull their way across the Mediterranean, wondering with each turn if their love, or lust, can free Zebra from her past. An adventure tale, a love story, and a paean to the power of language and literature starring a heroine as quirky as Don Quixote, as introspective as Virginia Woolf, as whip-smart as Miranda July, and as spirited as Frances Ha, Call Me Zebra will establish Van der Vliet Oloomi as an author "on the verge of developing a whole new literature movement" (Bustle).
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544944607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction "Hearken ye fellow misfits, migrants, outcasts, squint-eyed bibliophiles, library-haunters and book stall-stalkers: Here is a novel for you."--Wall Street Journal "A tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bola o and Borges." --New York Times Book Review Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction * Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A Publishers Weekly Bestseller Named a Best Book by: Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Boston Globe, Fodor's, Fast Company, Refinery29, Nylon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Book Riot, The Millions, Electric Literature, Bitch, Hello Giggles, Literary Hub, Shondaland, Bustle, Brit & Co., Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Read It Forward, Entropy Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, iBooks and Publishers Weekly From an award-winning young author, a novel following a feisty heroine's quest to reclaim her past through the power of literature--even as she navigates the murkier mysteries of love. Zebra is the last in a line of anarchists, atheists, and autodidacts. When war came, her family didn't fight; they took refuge in books. Now alone and in exile, Zebra leaves New York for Barcelona, retracing the journey she and her father made from Iran to the United States years ago. Books are Zebra's only companions--until she meets Ludo. Their connection is magnetic; their time together fraught. Zebra overwhelms him with her complex literary theories, her concern with death, and her obsession with history. He thinks she's unhinged; she thinks he's pedantic. Neither are wrong; neither can let the other go. They push and pull their way across the Mediterranean, wondering with each turn if their love, or lust, can free Zebra from her past. An adventure tale, a love story, and a paean to the power of language and literature starring a heroine as quirky as Don Quixote, as introspective as Virginia Woolf, as whip-smart as Miranda July, and as spirited as Frances Ha, Call Me Zebra will establish Van der Vliet Oloomi as an author "on the verge of developing a whole new literature movement" (Bustle).