Gordon Rohlehr (essay date August 1992)
SOURCE: “Possession as Metaphor: Lamming's Season of Adventure,” in Journal of West Indian Literature, Vol. 5, Nos. 1-2, August, 1992, pp. 1-29.
[In the following essay, Rohlehr examines the political metaphors and instances of allegory in Season of Adventure.]
The tendency to employ ecstatic possession as metaphor of the descent into the unconscious mind of the individual and the group, has become quite common in both Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American literatures. Texts such as Brathwaite's...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2001 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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