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Synopsis
Literary Nonfiction. Caribbean and African American Studies. Language and Ethnicity Politics. "SOVEREIGNTY OF THE IMAGINATION gives us that capacity for language and therefore the ability to name and establish categories...it allows us to define freedom. George Lamming recognizes the centrality of the quest for freedom for the social group that he calls 'this world of men and women from down below'"—Prof. Anthony Bogues, Political Science, Brown University
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About the Author
George Lamming was born on June 8, 1927, in Barbados. The illustrious Caribbean novelist/thinker, who has also lived in Trinidad, England, and the USA, is the author of six novels and a highly influential collection of essays, The Pleasures of Exile (1960). Lamming now makes his home in Barbados where he remains actively involved in the cultural life of the Caribbean. Awards and honors include a Guggenheim, the Sommerset Maugham Award, a Canadian Council Fellowship, a British Commonwealth Foundation grant, the Presidents Award from St. Martin Book Fair, the Hibiscus Prize from the Association of Cuban Writers and Artists, and an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies and City University of New York. His more recent books of essential essays, Western Education and the Caribbean Intellectual and SOVEREIGNTY OF THE IMAGINATION are the newest collections of his Conversations series.
Review
The tight relationship between politics, knowledge, language, and the spaces of freedom in Lamming's writings makes him one of the most important political novelists in Caribbean Literature. --Prof. Anthony Bogues, Political Science, Brown University
The Lamming monographs are themselves part of the current discourse which targets the historical, cultural and scientific implications of the pan-hemispheric encounters that will continue to be of global importance well into the twenty-first century. --Rex Nettleford, author, scholar
Lamming's preoccupation with freedom is today very apropos because one feature of our contemporary world is the resurgence of a current of thought and action, which heralds the virtues of empire. --Dr. Anthony Bogues, Center for Caribbean Thought
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- PublisherHouse of Nehesi Publishers
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0913441465
- ISBN 13 9780913441466
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages82
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