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GEORGE LAMMING (1927 - )

CONFERENCES

• The Sovereignty of the Imagination: the Writings and Thought of George Lamming, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, June 6-7, 2003

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Coming, Coming Home: Conversations II.  Intro. Rex Nettleford.  Philipsburg, St. Martin: House of Nehesi, 1995.
  • Conversations: Essays, Addresses and Interviews, 1953-90.  Ed. Andaiye and Richard Drayton.  London: Karia, 1990.  
• Edited Works:
  • Cultures of Scholarship.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1998.
  • Cannon Shot and Glass Beads: Modern Black Writing.  Pan Books, 1974.
• Selected Individual Works:
  • The Sovereignty of the Imagination.  Intro. Anthony Bogues.  Kingston: Arawak, 2004.
  • "Western Education and the Caribbean Intellectual."  Opening Address, Carifesta V Symposia Series, 1992.
    • Coming, Coming Home: Conversations II.  Intro. Rex Nettleford.  Philipsburg, St. Martin: House of Nehesi, 1995.  3-28.
  • "Politics and Culture."  Graduation Address, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, 1980. 
    • Conversations: Essays, Addresses and Interviews, 1953-90.  Ed. Andaiye and Richard Drayton.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990.  77-83.
  • Influencia del Africa en las litaraturas antillanas [The Influence of Africa on Antillian Literature].  1972.
  • Natives of My Person.  New York: Holt, 1972.
  • Water With Berries.  New York: Holt, 1972.
  • "Caribbean Literature: the Black Rock of Africa."  African Forum 1.4 (1966): 32-52. 
    • Conversations: Essays, Addresses and Interviews, 1953-90.  Ed. Andaiye and Richard Drayton.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990.  105-124.
  • The Pleasures of Exile.  London: Michael Joseph, 1960.  Rpt. London: Allison and Busby, 1984.  Rpt. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1991.
    • "The Occasion for Speaking."  The Pleasures of Exile.  London: Michael Joseph, 1960.  Rpt. London: Allison and Busby, 1984.  23-50.
      • The Post-colonial Studies Reader.  Ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin.  London: Routledge, 1995.  12-17.
      • Pp. 38-39 and 44-46 pub. as "The Peasant Roots of the West Indian Novel."  Critics on Caribbean Literature: Readings in Literary Criticism.  Ed. Edward Baugh.  London: Allen and Unwin, 1978.  24-26.
    • "The Pleasures of Exile."  Carifesta Forum: an Anthology of Twenty Caribbean Voices.  Ed. John Hearne.  Kingston: Institute of Jamaica, 1976.  87-98.
  • Season of Adventure.  London: Michael Joseph, 1960.
  • Of Age and Innocence.  London: Michael Joseph, 1958.
  • "The Negro Writer and his World."  First International Congress of Black Writers and Artists, Paris, September 21, 1956. 
    • Conversations: Essays, Addresses and Interviews, 1953-90.  Ed. Andaiye and Richard Drayton.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990.  35-44.
    • Caribbean Quarterly 5.2 (1958): 109-115.
    • Présence Africaine 8-10 (1956): 318-325. 
  • The Emigrants.  New York: McGraw, 1955.
  • In the Castle of My Skin.  Intro. Richard Wright.  New York: McGraw, 1953.  Rpt. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1991.
  • "Culture and Sovereignty." 
    • Conversations: Essays, Addresses, and Interviews, 1953-1990.  Ed. Richard Drayton and Andaiye.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2002.  283-287.
• Selected Interviews:
  • "The Sovereignty of the Imagination: an Interview with George Lamming."  With David Scott.  Small Axe 12.2 (2002): 72-200.
  • "George Lamming."  September 30, 1979.  New World Adams.  Interviews by Daryl Cumber Dance.  Leeds: Peepal Tree, 1992.  134-144.
  • "Texas Dialogues."  Interviews with Ian Munro and Reinhard Sander.  University of Texas, Austin, 1970.  Conversations: Essays, Addresses and Interviews, 1953-90.  Ed. Andaiye and Richard Drayton.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990.  57

On-Line:

• Selected Individual Works:

• Selected Interviews:

  • Damming Lamming [with Knolly Moses, Panmedia]

  • Interview with George Lamming [Banyan] (1989)

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Bogues, Anthony, and Curdella Forbes, eds.  Aesthetics, Politics and Cultural Sovereignty: the Thought of George Lamming.  Kingston: Ian Randle, 2006.

  • Boxill, Antony, ed.  Critical Perspectives on George Lamming.  Pueblo, CO: Passeggiata, 1986.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Da Silva, A. J. Sinnoe.  The Luxury of Nationalist Despair: George Lamming's Fiction as Decolonizing Project.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000.

  • Nair, Supriya  Caliban's Curse: George Lamming and the Revisioning of History.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1996.

  • Paquet, Sandra Poulet.  The Novels of George Lamming.  London, Heinemann, 1983.

On-Line:

• Books and Writers: George Lamming

• Brown University: G. Lamming

• Creighton, Al: George Lamming: ‘an Outstanding Caribbean Literary Icon’ June 26, 2003

• Dorn, Paul: Seen from All Sides: George Lamming's In the Castle of my Skin

• Hare, James: George Lamming

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: George Lamming

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