In the Castle of My Skin (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: George Lamming
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: The mid-1930’s to the mid-1940’s
- Setting: Creighton’s Village, Barbados
- Genres: Short fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Politics, Blacks, Colonies or colonization, Race, Education or educators, 1940’s, Prejudices or antipathies, Villages, Class consciousness, 1930’s, Castles, Ethics, Landlords or tenants
- Locales: Barbados
Characters Discussed
G., a young Barbadian boy who is the narrator and protagonist. He is eight years old at the opening of the novel, which spans the subsequent nine years of his life. He tells the story of his childhood, which was spent in a small village (the fictitious Creighton’s Village) in Barbados, where he attends the local school with his friends. Unlike his friends, he wins a scholarship to go to high school. After he has been graduated from high school, he goes to Trinidad to become a teacher in a small school for Venezuelan and other South American students. The...
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