- Paperback: 344 pages
- Publisher: University of Michigan Press; Reprint edition (July 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0472064703
- ISBN-13: 978-0472064700
- Product Dimensions: 20.7 x 13.5 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #567,366 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A compelling and intricate novel of emigration and the effects of colonialism on a people
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Immigration and Loss of Identity,
This review is from: The Emigrants (Paperback)
In Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe narrates the disruptive effect European colonisation has on old tribal ways of life. In George Lamming's The Emigrants (1954)the movement is the other way round: a group of West Indians immigrates to London in search of a better future. During the voyage on the ship, told as a kind of rite of passage from their old to the new world, they share past experiences, dreams, hopes and ambitions. The voyage however doesn't prepare them for the life of outcasts that awaits them in London, and the subsequent loss of identity. The form of the narrative adjusts itself to its theme: its continuous flow, which narrates the voyage, breaks up into several trails following the individual destinies that lose themselves in the smoke of London. Though not as great as In The Castle of my Skin, which I think Mr. Lamming's greatest novel, it is an intense book about immigration, cultural chock and loss of identity.
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Immigration and Loss of Identity,
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This review is from: The Emigrants (Paperback)
In Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe narrates the disruptive effect European colonisation has on old tribal ways of life. In George Lamming's The Emigrants (1954)the movement is the other way round: a group of West Indians immigrates to London in search of a better future. During the voyage on the ship, told as a kind of rite of passage from their old to the new world, they share past experiences, dreams, hopes and ambitions. The voyage however doesn't prepare them for the life of outcasts that awaits them in London, and the subsequent loss of identity. The form of the narrative adjusts itself to its theme: its continuous flow, which narrates the voyage, breaks up into several trails following the individual destinies that lose themselves in the smoke of London. Though not as great as In The Castle of my Skin, which I think Mr. Lamming's greatest novel, it is an intense book about immigration, cultural chock and loss of identity.
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I wouldn't recommend it,
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I had to read this book for an English class and I did not enjoy it at all. Plot is hard to follow, characters are unlikeable, and the writing style comes across as confused and unpolished. I wouldn't recommend it.
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