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15 produkter
In the Castle of My Skin
Häftad, 2017
149 kr
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'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 …
In the Castle of My Skin
E-bok, 2017
108 kr
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'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 …
Natives of My Person
Häftad, 2026
179 kr
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A profound exploration of colonialism, from one of the Caribbean’s most powerful literary voices‘A novel which adds a new dimension to contemporary fiction ... Natives of My Person is above all the story of a voyage … a voyage which as in The Odyssey and Moby Dick penetrates into the very depths of …
Natives of My Person
A Novel
Häftad, 1900
212 kr
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George Lamming—one of the Caribbean’s most powerful literary voices, championed by Richard Wright and Jean-Paul Sartre—reimagines the age of European exploration in a work that stands as one of the great political novels of the twentieth century Under imperial orders, a nameless Commandant sets …
Pleasures of Exile
Häftad, 1992
302 kr
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In The Pleasures of Exile, as in his other works, George Lamming embraces the intricate issues of colonization and decolonization with a canny combination of playfulness and seriousness, irony and commitment. “[It] is a reciprocal process,” Lamming observes, “to be a colonial is to be a man in a …
In the Castle of My Skin
Häftad, 1992
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
302 kr
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An autobiographical novel of race and class by one of the leading Black writers of the 20th century
Emigrants
Häftad, 1994
302 kr
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The Emigrants is an elaborately conceived novel, dense with dynamic characters and evocative details. First published in 1954, it focuses initially on the emigrant journey, then on the settling-in process. The journey by sea and subsequent attempts at resettlement provide the fictional framework …
Pleasures of Exile
Häftad, 2005
673 kr
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'Migration in the 50s and 60s was formative for a whole generation of Caribbean writers, artists and intellectuals who, as Lamming himself says, became 'West Indian' in London. The Pleasures of Exile is simply the most poignant, eloquent, insightful and poetic set of reflections on that …
Natives of My Person
E-bok, 2026
102 kr
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A profound exploration of colonialism, from one of the Caribbean’s most powerful literary voices‘A novel which adds a new dimension to contemporary fiction ... Natives of My Person is above all the story of a voyage … a voyage which as in The Odyssey and Moby Dick penetrates into the very depths of …
Of Age and Innocence
Häftad, 2011
215 kr
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An insightful exploration of the nature of race and ethnicity in colonial and postcolonial Caribbean societies, this tale follows the charismatic Isaac Shepherd, who returns to the island of San Cristobal to lead an independence movement that unites the island's diverse groups against the colonial …
George Lamming Reader
The Aesthetics of Decolonisation
Av Anthony Bogues, George Lamming m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
461 kr
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Season of Adventure
Häftad, 1999
302 kr
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First published in 1960, Season of Adventure details the story of Fola, a light-skinned middle-class girl who has been tipped out of her easy hammock of social privilege into the complex political and cultural world of her recently independent homeland, the Caribbean island of San Cristobal. After …
In the Castle of My Skin
Inbunden, 1992
1216 kr
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An autobiographical novel of race and class by one of the leading Black writers of the 20th century
Season of Adventure
Inbunden, 1999
1454 kr
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First published in 1960, Season of Adventure details the story of Fola, a light-skinned middle-class girl who has been tipped out of her easy hammock of social privilege into the complex political and cultural world of her recently independent homeland, the Caribbean island of San Cristobal. After …
Water With Berries
Häftad, 2016
165 kr
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This novel is a powerful study of the impossibility of disentangling British and Caribbean lives, the unacknowledged power of history, the nature of misogyny, and the conflict between the calls of art and revolution.
