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Natives of My Person

Auteur(s): George Lamming, Caryl Phillips - introduction
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 George Lamming—one of the Caribbean’s most powerful literary voices, championed by Richard Wright and Jean-Paul Sartre—reimagines the age of European exploration in a work that stands as one of the great political novels of the twentieth century

Under imperial orders, a nameless Commandant sets sail sometime between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, bound for the legendary island of San Cristobal—a place whispered about in maps and myths, promised as a prize of empire. The voyage is meant to secure glory and dominion. Instead, it begins to unravel.

As weeks at sea stretch into obsession, the expedition becomes a dangerous test of authority and belief. The Commandant’s power is absolute yet increasingly fragile; his crew is caught between obedience and doubt. What begins as a mission of discovery turns into a voyage haunted by fear, desire, and the unspoken violence at the heart of conquest.

Told through shifting perspectives and charged with poetic intensity, Natives of My Person plunges readers inside the imperial imagination at the moment it begins to crack. George Lamming transforms the historical voyage into a gripping psychological drama—one that exposes the ambitions, illusions, and brutal consequences of empire. Urgent, unsettling, and fiercely original, Natives of My Person, Lamming’s masterpiece, reveals how conquest reshapes not only the world, but the minds that seek to rule it.

“George Lamming is not so much a novelist as a chronicler of secret journeys to the innermost regions of the West Indian psyche. . . an uninhibited journey to the heart of the colonizer.” —The New York Times Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique
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