In the Castle of My Skin | The Myth of the Fall and the Drawing of Consciousness in George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin
In the following excerpt, the author looks at the myth of the Fall as a metaphor for maturation in Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin.
In 1958 George Lamming wrote that the modern black writer's endeavor is like that of "every other writer whose work is a form of self enquiry, a clarification of his relations with other men, and a report on his own highly subjective conception of the possible meaning of man's life." A writer's self-inquiry constitutes his first world—"the world of the private and hidden self, the world hidden within the castle of each man's skin." And if he is honest, he will bear witness to the impact that a second world, the social, has made on his consciousness. Finally, because a man cannot escape...
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