In the Castle of My Skin (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: George Lamming
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: The mid-1930’s to the mid-1940’s
- Setting: The fictional Creighton’s Village, Barbados
- Principal Characters: G., G.’s Mother, Pa, Ma, Mr. Creighton, Mr. Slime, Trumper, Boy Blue, Bob, The Shoemaker, Mr. Foster
- 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
The Novel
Told in the first person and the third person, this is the story of G., but it is also the story of Creighton’s Village as it experiences major changes ranging from the break-up of the feudal colonial plantation system with its dominating white Landlord and Great House to a new age of labor unrest, an emergent black elite, and awakening nationalism. Richard Wright’s introduction to the novel notes that the work is “a symbolic repetition of the story of millions of simple folk who . . . are today being catapulted out of their peaceful, indigenously earthy lives...
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