In the Castle of My Skin (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: George Lamming
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: The 1930’s and 1940’s
- Setting: Creighton’s Village, Barbados
- Principal Characters: G., Trumper, Bob, Boy Blue, G.’s Mother, Ma, Pa, Mr. Slime, 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
In the Castle of My Skin is an autobiographical novel by a young native of Barbados living in England. The novel’s plot covers the years from the time of a great flood when the narrator is nine years old to the eve of his departure for the larger island of Trinidad at the age of seventeen.
The virtually unnamed narrator, G., clearly is a surrogate for the author, though Lamming’s narrative strategy of alternating first-person and third-person narrators has the effect of submerging G.’s identity beneath the larger collective identity and situation...
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