num_pages: 344
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.
language: English
title: In the Castle of My Skin
titlecomplete: In the Castle of My Skin
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Travel, Modern Classics, Politics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Race, Read For School
ratings_count: 888
awards: awardedAt: -410198400000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: University of Michigan Press