Description
Book SynopsisA classic book on cultural identity by a major Caribbean writer.
Trade Review'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 experience' -- Stuart Hall
'The passing of more than 40 years hasn't dulled the sheer brazen confidence with which George Lamming brought a West Indian way of seeing to British life and literature' -- Peter Hulme
Table of ContentsForeword by Richard Drayton
Preface to new edition by Bill Schwarz
Introduction
1. In the Beginning
2. The Occasion for Speaking
3. Evidence and Example
4. A Way of Seeing
5. Conflict and Illusion
6. A Monster, A Child, A Slave
7. Caliban Orders History
8. Ishmael at Home
9. The African Presence
10. Journey to an Expectation
Index
