Description
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.
Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 01/22/1992
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.74d
ISBN13: 9780472064687
ISBN10: 0472064681
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | General
- Literary Criticism | General