Hearing Voices in George Lamming’s The Pleasures of Exile and Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners
This essay examines the problematic status of voice in essays and fiction written by postcolonial writers. In the light of Mladen Dolar’s study of the ambiguous nature of voice as “the vanishing mediator” between sound and sense, we look at the way in which Lamming’s essays attempt to come to terms...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:ces_8570 https://doi.org/10.4000/ces.8570 urn:doi:10.4000/ces.8570 en https://journals.openedition.org/ces/8570 2022-02-15T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/dt1n https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Hearing Voices in George Lamming’s The Pleasures of Exile and Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners Commonwealth Essays and Studies SEPC (Société d’études des pays du Commonwealth) info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2534-6695 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-0633 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces Birat, Kathie This essay examines the problematic status of voice in essays and fiction written by postcolonial writers. In the light of Mladen Dolar’s study of the ambiguous nature of voice as “the vanishing mediator” between sound and sense, we look at the way in which Lamming’s essays attempt to come to terms with the paradoxical relation between sound and meaning. In confronting the silence imposed on the writer by the colonial situation, Lamming reveals the existence of voices which characterize for him the “noises” of the Caribbean, but which he is unable to integrate into the expression of a cultural identity. His companion on the voyage to England, Sam Selvon, demonstrates in his novel The Lonely Londoners that fiction is a medium better adapted to the creation of truly Caribbean voices because of the way in which it allows the sound of the voice to participate actively in the creation of sense. |
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This essay examines the problematic status of voice in essays and fiction written by postcolonial writers. In the light of Mladen Dolar’s study of the ambiguous nature of voice as “the vanishing mediator” between sound and sense, we look at the way in which Lamming’s essays attempt to come to terms with the paradoxical relation between sound and meaning. In confronting the silence imposed on the writer by the colonial situation, Lamming reveals the existence of voices which characterize for him the “noises” of the Caribbean, but which he is unable to integrate into the expression of a cultural identity. His companion on the voyage to England, Sam Selvon, demonstrates in his novel The Lonely Londoners that fiction is a medium better adapted to the creation of truly Caribbean voices because of the way in which it allows the sound of the voice to participate actively in the creation of sense. |
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Hearing Voices in George Lamming’s The Pleasures of Exile and Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners |
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Hearing Voices in George Lamming’s The Pleasures of Exile and Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners |
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