01380nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000090007304100080008208200210009010000190011124500290013026000310015930000280019036500120021852008740023065000260110465000230113070000210115320220601102449.0220601b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0582642671  cAloy  aeng  223a828.91bLAMI  aGeorge Lamming  aIn the castle of my skin  aHong Kong:bLongman.c1986  aii,293p.bPBc19xx12cm.  2Englsih  aNearly 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.  aEnglish Miscellaneous  aEnglish Literature  aLAMMING (George)