Lamming, George Eric
Lamming, George Eric ( 1927 – ),novelist and poet, born in Barbados. His first novel, In the Castle of My Skin ( 1953 ), is the story of a boy's adolescence in a small peasant village in Barbados, and of his growing awareness of the colonial situation; this was followed by The Emigrants ( 1954 ), which describes the voyage to and arrival in Britain of a group of West Indians. Of Age and Innocence ( 1958 ) and Season of Adventure ( 1960 ) are more optimistic works, set on the imaginary island of San Cristobal. Other works include Water with Berries ( 1971 ) and Natives of My Person ( 1972 ). Thiong'o commented (Homecomings, 1972 ) that Lamming's novels are dominated by the theme of ‘exile as a universal experience’.
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