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In the Castle of My Skin
Nearly forty years after its initial publication, George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin is considered a classic narrative of the Black colonial experience. This poetic autobiographical novel juxtaposes the undeveloped, unencumbered life of a small Caribbean island with the materialism and anxiety of the twentieth century.
Written when Lamming was twenty-three and residing in England, In the Castle of My Skin poignantly chronicles the author's life from his ninth to his nineteenth year. Through the eyes of a young boy the experiences of colonial education, class tensions, and natural disaster are interpreted and reinterpreted, mediated through the presence of the old villagers and friends who leave for the mainland.
One of the leading Black writers of the twentieth century, George Lamming is the author of numerous works exploring the colonial experience.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- Publish Date: Jan 22nd, 1992
- Pages: 344
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.40in - 0.74in - 0.80lb
- EAN: 9780472064687
- Categories: • General• Cultural & Ethnic Studies - General• General
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What people are saying
Vijay Prashad is a historian, journalist and social science researcher.
The great Bajan intellectual - George Lamming - has died. His In the Castle of My Skin (1953) is a classic, but then the book that influenced me the most was The Pleasures of Exile (1960) - cultural critique at its highest. Here he is in Cuba, 2011. Pens down in tribute. https://t.co/6QgIIiMTTX
Marcus Rediker is a historian and author.
One of the great figures of Caribbean literature, George Lamming, author of *In the Castle of My Skin* and the *The Pleasures of Exile*, has left us. It was a thrill to meet George at Brown University in 2005 & to correspond thereafter. I found him a kind, wise, deep-souled man. https://t.co/uLHnobgENk
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In George Lamming’s ‘In The Castle Of My Skin’, Mr. Slime - Black & educated - purports to buy up all the land and sell it reasonably to his fellow villagers. The villagers view Slime as a saviour, a benevolent gatekeeper, a member, a safety measure with the same agenda. Until…
What people are saying
Vijay Prashad is a historian, journalist and social science researcher.
The great Bajan intellectual - George Lamming - has died. His In the Castle of My Skin (1953) is a classic, but then the book that influenced me the most was The Pleasures of Exile (1960) - cultural critique at its highest. Here he is in Cuba, 2011. Pens down in tribute. https://t.co/6QgIIiMTTX
Marcus Rediker is a historian and author.
One of the great figures of Caribbean literature, George Lamming, author of *In the Castle of My Skin* and the *The Pleasures of Exile*, has left us. It was a thrill to meet George at Brown University in 2005 & to correspond thereafter. I found him a kind, wise, deep-souled man. https://t.co/uLHnobgENk