In the Castle of My Skin (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
by George Lamming
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Author: George LammingEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1991-03-01
ISBN: 0472064681
Number of pages: 344
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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Book Review: Growing aware of the Castle
Summary: 5 Stars
"In the Castle of my Skin" is a highly poetic account of growing up in the black community of Barbadoes. Lamming gives us a vivid picture of G's family, his friends, his school and village life. Interwoven with G's everyday experience is his awareness of what it means being black and being poor in a somehow secluded island community. Lamming's teatment of racism is sober and sensitive. It's the more effective because it shows how inseparable its perception is from the growing awareness a young black boy has of himself. There is much more violence in this as in many a bloody battle. In it's poetic language,the vividness of its characters and scenery,the deep psychological insight and the sober and just treatment of the growing awareness of differences in the context of Carribean history this novel is a masterpiece of universal literature.It certainly can be read as "the portrait of a young artist"; The reference of the main character's initial to Lamming's first name George seems pretty obvious. But if a portrait, its an excellent one!
Summary of In the Castle of My Skin (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
An autobiographical novel of race and class by one of the leading Black writers of the 20th century
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