我本乡人（乔治·拉明）Natives of My Person

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Outsider Editions

Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 14, 2026

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 496 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0385552203

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0385552202

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.9 ounces

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.97 x 7.5 inches

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

乔治·拉明——加勒比地区具有影响力的文学声音之一，曾受到理查德·赖特和让-保罗·萨特的推崇——在其作品中重构了欧洲探险时代，这部作品堪称二十世纪伟大的政治小说之一。

奉帝国之命，一位无名指挥官于十六至十八世纪的某个时期扬帆起航，前往传说中的圣克里斯托瓦尔岛——一个在地图和神话中低语的地方，被誉为帝国的奖赏。此次航行旨在巩固荣耀和统治。然而，事态却开始失控。

随着海上航行数周逐渐演变成一种执念，探险变成了一场对权威和信仰的危险考验。指挥官的权力至高无上，却也日益脆弱；他的船员们在服从与怀疑之间摇摆不定。一开始的探索之旅，后来变成了一场被恐惧、欲望和征服核心中那难以言说的暴力所笼罩的航程。

《我族之民》以不断变换的视角和充满诗意的笔触，将读者带入帝国想象开始崩塌的瞬间。乔治·拉明将这段历史之旅转化为一部扣人心弦的心理剧，揭露了帝国的野心、幻象及其残酷的后果。这部拉明的杰作《我族之民》节奏紧凑、引人深思、极具原创性，揭示了征服如何重塑世界，以及那些试图统治世界的人的思想。

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.

作者简介

乔治·拉明（1927-2022）是一位小说家、散文家和诗人。拉明出生于巴巴多斯，并在那里长大，之后在特立尼达担任教师，后定居英国。他的教学生涯包括在杜克大学担任杰出访问教授，以及在布朗大学担任访问教授。他的著作包括《在我皮肤的城堡里》（1953）、《移民》（1954）、《成熟与纯真》（1958）、《流亡的乐趣》（1960）和《我身上的土著》（1972）。拉明的一部小说《在我皮肤的城堡里》荣获萨默塞特·毛姆奖；1954年，拉明获得古根海姆奖学金。 2008 年，拉明被授予加勒比共同体勋章 (OCC)，以表彰他“五十五年来在阐明加勒比身份、治愈抹杀和分裂的创伤方面所做出的非凡贡献”。

GEORGE LAMMING (1927–2022) was a novelist, essayist, and poet. Lamming was born and raised in Barbados but worked as a teacher in Trinidad before settling in the UK. His teaching career included posts as distinguished visiting professor at Duke University and visiting professor at Brown University. Among his books are In the Castle of My Skin (1953), The Emigrants (1954), Of Age and Innocence (1958), The Pleasures of Exile (1960), and Natives of My Person (1972). Lamming’s first novel, In the Castle of My Skin, won the Somerset Maugham Award; in 1954, Lamming was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2008, Lamming was honored with an Order of the Caribbean Community (OCC) to acknowledge “fifty-five years of extraordinary engagement with the responsibility of illuminating Caribbean identities, healing the wounds of erasure and fragmentation.”