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.
Book Information
ISBN 9780472064687
Author George Lamming
Format Paperback
Page Count 344
Imprint The University of Michigan Press
Publisher The University of Michigan Press
Weight(grams) 371g
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 Information
ISBN 9780472064687
Author George Lamming
Format Paperback
Page Count 344
Imprint The University of Michigan Press
Publisher The University of Michigan Press
Weight(grams) 371g
