L’identità femminile: riti e percorsi per un ritorno in patria in Natives of My Person di George Lamming
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Lamming, viaggio, Colonialismo, Indie OccidentaliAbstract
L’ultimo romanzo dello scrittore barbadiano George Lamming che presenta una trama solo apparentemente semplice: il viaggio seicentesco della nave Reconnaissance risulta essere un espediente per condurre un’analisi dell’età coloniale e della fase post-coloniale nell’arcipelago caraibico, nonché uno studio dei sistemi di potere e dei rapporti interpersonali all’interno delle società gerarchiche e patriarcali che il colonialismo ha generato. Esso si configura come una complessa ed enigmatica allegoria che abbraccia tutta la storia delle Indie Occidentali, dall’epoca della colonizzazione europea delle Americhe fino ai giorni nostri.
Feminine Identity: Rites and Paths towards a Return Home in George Lamming’s Natives of my Person
The present study concerns the last novel by Barbadian writer George Lamming. The plot is apparently simple: the voyage on board the Reconaissance in the XVII cent. is barely an expedient for a historical analysis of the colonial and post-colonial period in the Carribean Archipelago. The novel examines the ambiguity and complexity of the power system and inter-personal relationships within the hierarchical and patriarchal societies generated by colonialism. The result is that of a complex and enigmatic allegory embracing the whole history of the West Indies, from colonial times to the present.
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