The Luxury of Nationalist Despair. George Lamming's Fiction as Decolonizing Project. - SIMOES DA SILVA, A.J.
KORTE INHOUD
This book offers a timely critique of the work of the Barbadian novelist George Lamming, examining the ways in which his novels exhibit the “luxury of nationalist despair” and exploring the tensions between his strongly voiced anti-colonialism and his ambiguously articulated politics of self. Although stressing the place occupied by Lamming and his work in the context of an anti-colonial first generation of 'nation-writing' that has emerged in the formerly colonized world over the past half-century, the study also addresses the novelist's problematic, reductive focus on a nationalist project that is ultimately deeply flawed - in essence, the result of an uneasy relationship between form and thesis. Lamming's continued struggle with the novel as a genre, especially with its ability to get beyond the cultural and political baggage of colonialism, demonstrates the power of one of his most poignant assertions: “the colonial experience [...] is a continuing psychic experience that has to be dealt with long after t...
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Original publishers sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: 218pp., footnotes/bibliographical notes, conclusion, works cited. Very fine copy - as new. Volume 44: Cross/Cultures. Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi. 2000 [Auteur: SIMOES DA SILVA, A.J.] [Jaar: 2000] [Titel: The Luxury of Nationalist Despair. George Lamming's Fiction as Decolonizing Project.]
