In the Castle of My Skin | Themes
Colonialism
The relationship between colonial powers and their colonies, and the effects that this relationship has on the inhabitants of the colonies, is the enduring concern of George Lamming. All of his works address these issues. As the first of his novels, In the Castle of My Skin appropriately anatomizes this dynamic as it bears upon a nine-year-old boy in one of Barbados' small rural villages.
The colonizing nation does not exert its power on the colonized people solely by using raw force such as that at the disposal of governmental or military bodies....
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