Caribbean Reasonings - The George Lamming Reader: The Aesthetics of Decolonisation
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Language
English
ISBN
978-976-637-656-7
Table of Contents
Foreword: Freeing the Imagination: Lamming’s Aesthetics of Decolonisation
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Aesthetic Quest for an Insurgent Caribbean Intellectual Practice: George Lamming and Caribbean Thought
SECTION 1: Language, Politics and Literature (1953–1990)
1. The Negro Writer and His World
2. The Education of Feeling
3. In the Castle of My Skin: Thirty Years After
4. On West Indian Writing
5. Politics and Culture
6. Tribute to a Tragic Jamaican
7. Builders of Our Caribbean House
8. Portrait of a Prime Minister
9. On the Murder of Rodney
10. The Imperial Encirclement
11. C.L.R. James, Evangelist
12. The Honourable Member
13. Nationalism and Nation
14. Labour and the Humanising ofthe Landscape
15. Sovereignty, Mobilisation andPopular Consciousness
16. In Defence of Cultural Sovereignty
SECTION 2: Lamming in Conversation
17. ‘A Future They Must Learn’: An Interview by George Kent
18. Martin Carter: A Poet of the Americas: An Interview withStewart Brown*
19. The Aesthetics of Decolonisation Conversation between Anthony Bogues and George Lamming*
SECTION 3: Reflective Notes: The Past and Present
20. After a Decade
21. We Mourn Her to Celebrate Example!
22. The Legacy of Eric Williams
23. Caribbean Thought: History, Pedagogy and Archive
24. Reflections on Writing The Pleasures of Exile
SECTION 4: Critical Reflections on the Politics, Arts and Aesthetics of George Lamming
25. George Lamming and the Epistemology of Exile: Ways of Seeing, Singularity and Colonialism
26. Lamming’s Critique of Imperialist Discourse
27. The Historic Centrality of Mr Slime: Lamming’s Pursuit of Class Betrayal in Novels and Speeches
28. Postcolonial Negations: George Lamming’s Open Future
29. From Intellectual Workers for Regional Sovereignty to Culture and Sovereignty in the Caribbean and The Sovereignty of the Imagination: The Shifting Groundof a Writer and Public Intellectual
30. Coming, Coming Home – Must be Read
SECTION 5: Extract of Novel in Progress: Columbus: A View From the Other Side
Columbus – Another View
SECTION 6: Annotated Biographies
Selected Annotated Biographies and Important Events
Contributors
Index
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