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George Lamming — The Pleasures of Exile (Pluto Classics)
Paperback. Condition: Like new — some highlighting.
First published in 1960, George Lamming’s book of essays is a founding text of Caribbean thought. Writing as a Barbadian novelist living in London, Lamming rereads Shakespeare’s The Tempest through Caliban and Prospero to think about colonial language, education and power, and moves through the Haitian Revolution, C.L.R. James, the Windrush generation and the condition of the West Indian writer in exile. Personal, polemical and still urgent.
Part of the Black Curatorial reading room — books from our Frieze London 2026 presentation and the wider Caribbean and Black British canon. Enquiries: aliyah@blackcuratorial.co
George Lamming — The Pleasures of Exile (Pluto Classics)
Paperback. Condition: Like new — some highlighting.
First published in 1960, George Lamming’s book of essays is a founding text of Caribbean thought. Writing as a Barbadian novelist living in London, Lamming rereads Shakespeare’s The Tempest through Caliban and Prospero to think about colonial language, education and power, and moves through the Haitian Revolution, C.L.R. James, the Windrush generation and the condition of the West Indian writer in exile. Personal, polemical and still urgent.
Part of the Black Curatorial reading room — books from our Frieze London 2026 presentation and the wider Caribbean and Black British canon. Enquiries: aliyah@blackcuratorial.co