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1. In the Castle of My Skin (Ann
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2. The Emigrants (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
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3. The Pleasures of Exile (Ann Arbor
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4. Biography - Lamming, George (William)
 
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5. The Poetics of Alienation and
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6. George Lamming's "In the Castle
 
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7. THE LUXURY OF NATIONALIST DESPAIR.
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8. From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel
 
9. Critical Perspectives on George
 
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10. Caliban's Curse: George Lamming
 
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11. Caliban's Curse: George Lamming
 
12. In the Castle of My Skin
 
13. In the Castle of My Skin
 
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14. Season of Adventure (Ann Arbor
 
15. The Castle of My Skin
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16. Conversations II - Western Education
 
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17. Natives of My Person (Ann Arbor
 
18. In the Castle of My Skin
 
19. In the Castle of My Skin(Signed)
 
20. Water with berries

1. In the Castle of My Skin (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
by George Lamming
Paperback: 314 Pages (1991-03-01)
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Asin: 0472064681
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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An autobiographical novel of race and class by one of the leading Black writers of the 20th century
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5-0 out of 5 stars Coming of Age in a Strange World
Lamming's "coming of age" novel depicts the life of a precocious adolescent, G, who is trying to understand the colonial, grown-up world. The innocence of G is balanced against the decadence of his environment. Read also, Michael Anthony's The Year in San Fernando and Austin Calrke's, Growing Up Stupid Under Union Jack to fully understand Lamming's achievement.

5-0 out of 5 stars A brilliant modern Caribbean masterpiece!
George Lamming, along with other Caribbean writers such as V.S. Naipaul and V.S. Reid, broke through the Victorian box of post-World War II, pre-independence British colonial writing.Their styles are all different but their message is generally the same: trying to grapple with the major issues of politics, race, and self-worth.Lamming's description of G's life (which can be paralleled to James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man") draws the reader into the decadent colonial world of the pre-World War II Barbados.Lamming's style haunts and amuses but ultimately almost confuses; read this carefully to understand the true meaning of the book.

4-0 out of 5 stars "a must read"
The more I attempt to say about Mr Lamming's beautifully descriptive and uniquely refreshing style the more disservice I do to this marvelous work.If you have a Carribean, colonial or post colonial experience asI do, this novel is what they call "a must read".It evoked memories and thoughts in me long forgotten.You will find yourself laughing out aloud - which I did continuously on the E train to the point where I am sure my fellow riders thought me a lunatic.Above all this novel conveys a truth about the way we lived and live.It examines the march of time and the complexities and consequences of change and transition from the perspective of a Caribbean village.I am writing this as I search ... for more of Lamming's works.

5-0 out of 5 stars Growing aware of the Castle
"In the Castle of my Skin" is a highly poetic account of growing up in the black community of Barbadoes. Lamming gives us a vivid picture of G's family, his friends, his school and village life. Interwoven with G'severyday experience is his awareness of what it means being black and beingpoor in a somehow secluded island community. Lamming's teatment of racismis sober and sensitive. It's the more effective because it shows howinseparable its perception is from the growing awareness a young black boyhas of himself. There is much more violence in this as in many a bloodybattle. In it's poetic language,the vividness of its characters andscenery,the deep psychological insight and the sober and just treatment ofthe growing awareness of differences in the context of Carribean historythis novel is a masterpiece of universal literature.It certainly can beread as "the portrait of a young artist"; The reference of themain character's initial to Lamming's first name George seems prettyobvious. But if a portrait, its an excellent one!

5-0 out of 5 stars How Barbados came of age
George Lamming's "In the Castle of My Skin"skilfully depicts the Barbadian psyche.Set against the backdrop of the 1930s riots which helped to pave the way for Independence and the modern Barbados, throughthe eyes of a young boy, Lammingportrays the social, racial,politicaland urban struggles with which Barbados continues to grapple even with some thirty-three years of Political Independence from Britain.Requiredreading for all Caribbean people.The novel also offers non-Barbadians andnon-Caribbean peopleinsight into the modern social history of Barbadosand the Caribbean. ... Read more


2. The Emigrants (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
by George Lamming
Paperback: 344 Pages (1994-07-01)
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Asin: 0472064703
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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A compelling and intricate novel of emigration and the effects of colonialism on a people
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4-0 out of 5 stars Immigration and Loss of Identity
In Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe narrates the disruptive effect European colonisation has on old tribal ways of life. In George Lamming's The Emigrants (1954)the movement is the other way round: a group of WestIndians immigrates to London in search of a better future. During thevoyage on the ship, told as a kind of rite of passage from their old to thenew world, they share past experiences, dreams, hopes and ambitions. Thevoyage however doesn't prepare them for the life of outcasts that awaitsthem in London, and the subsequent loss of identity. The form of thenarrative adjusts itself to its theme: its continuous flow, which narratesthe voyage, breaks up into several trails following the individualdestinies that lose themselves in the smoke of London. Though not as greatas In The Castle of my Skin, which I think Mr. Lamming's greatest novel, itis an intense book about immigration, cultural chock and loss of identity. ... Read more


3. The Pleasures of Exile (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
by George Lamming
Paperback: 300 Pages (1991-03-01)
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Asin: 0472064665
Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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An examination of the effects of colonialism on those who are held in check
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3-0 out of 5 stars Wouldn't have read it if it weren't required
This book was interesting and well written, weaving the themes of slavery and oppression with the characters of a Shakespeare play. Although I admire the author's perseverence with the theme, I found it tiring and often hard to get into. I read it for a class and can't say I would've given it a second glance otherwise. ... Read more


4. Biography - Lamming, George (William) (1927-): An article from: Contemporary Authors
by Gale Reference Team
Digital: 9 Pages (2002-01-01)
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This digital document, covering the life and work of George (William) Lamming, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2456 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

  • Place and date of birth and death (if deceased)
  • Family members
  • Education
  • Professional associations and honors
  • Employment
  • Writings, including books and periodicals
  • A description of the author's work
  • References to further readings about the author
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5. The Poetics of Alienation and Identity: V.S. Naipaul and George Lamming
by Singh
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6. George Lamming's "In the Castle of My Skin": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" (Volume 15, Chapter 5)
Digital: 33 Pages (2002-07-23)
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Term paper due tomorrow? Need to cram for a test? Or just looking for the best information about a favorite literary work?

Turn to "Novels for Students" to get your research done in record time. Brought to you by Thomson Gale--the world's leading source of literary criticism and analysis--this e-doc contains: plot summary; character analysis; author biography; an overview of the novel's themes, style, and historical context; a compendium of in-depth critical material; study questions; suggestions for further reading; and much more.

Why choose "Novels For Students"? Because no other source offers so much in such a compact package. Trust the experts: Thomson Gale--and "Novels for Students." ... Read more


7. THE LUXURY OF NATIONALIST DESPAIR. George Lamming's Fiction as Decolonizing Project. (Cross/Cultures 44) (Cross/Cultures)
by A.J.Simoes da Silva
 Paperback: 226 Pages (2000-01)
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This book offers a timely critique of the work of the Barbadian novelist George Lamming, examining the ways in which his novels exhibit the "luxury of nationalist despair" and exploring the tensions between his strongly voiced anti-colonialism and his ambiguously articulated politics of self. Although stressing the place occupied by Lamming and his work in the context of an anti-colonial first generation of 'nation-writing' that has emerged in the formerly colonized world over the past half-century, the study also addresses the novelist's problematic, reductive focus on a nationalist project that is ultimately deeply flawed - in essence, the result of an uneasy relationship between form and thesis. Lamming's continued struggle with the novel as a genre, especially with its ability to get beyond the cultural and political baggage of colonialism, demonstrates the power of one of his most poignant assertions: "the colonial experience [...] is a continuing psychic experience that has to be dealt with long after the actual situation formally 'ends'."
Written from a postcolonial perspective, the study draws also on contemporary feminist criticism in order to examine Lamming's characteristically simplistic depiction of female characters in terms of a greater willingness to embody the neocolonial. The book starts by addressing the place Lamming's work occupies both within postcolonial writing at large and specifically within Caribbean literature. Subsequent chapters provide close textual readings of Lamming's six novels, paired in terms of their foregrounding of issues of race, gender and class. Despite a clear shift in Lamming's thematic focus on the rewriting of Caliban's project, with his last novel offering a basis for a re-imagining of the post/colonial encounter, there remains a perturbing inability to relinquish the privileged stance afforded the postcolonial intellectual in self-imposed exile (cultural, much more than geographical). The book represents an important contribution to criticism on the work of one of the most influential voices in postcolonial literature of the last fifty years. ... Read more


8. From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming And the Cultural Performance of Gender
by Curdella Forbes
Paperback: 305 Pages (2005-09-30)
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9. Critical Perspectives on George Lamming
by Antony Boxhill
 Hardcover: Pages (1986-06)
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Isbn: 0894102346
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10. Caliban's Curse: George Lamming and the Revisioning of History
by Supriya Nair
 Hardcover: 184 Pages (1996-10-15)
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Ever present in the work of contemporary Barbadian novelist George Lamming, author of In the Castle of My Skin, Natives of My Person, The Emigrants, and The Pleasures of Exile, are the subjects of history and revolution. In Caliban's Curse, Supriya M. Nair traces these themes and situates Lamming's work within the ongoing discourses of nationalism and identity. Retracing the history of colonial intervention in the anglophone Caribbean and seeking connections among Africa, the Caribbean, and England, Caliban's Curse moves beyond the popular perception of the archipelago as an ahistorical tourist paradise and presents the islands as a space populated by the tragic and triumphant cultures of the black diaspora.
Caliban's Curse draws upon a range of theories--postcolonial, Marxist, and feminist--to contextualize the black diaspora of the modern Caribbean through one of its primary anglophone novelists. Putting George Lamming in conversation with such contemporaries as C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, and Wilson Harris, Nair argues that Lamming's works expand the protest of Shakespeare's Caliban to articulate a reinvention of Caribbean cultures. Both cursed by and cursing the weight of colonial history, Lamming works against the paralysis induced by such an encounter; his work serves to rewrite canonical icons and to reimagine popular cultures.
"Supriya Nair writes about the problems of history and social revolution with passion and clarity and an amazing range of critical and cultural reference. . . . She brings to existing studies of Lamming a wide and sustained knowledge of the forces that have shaped the West Indian novel, and the wider postcolonial debates in which these novels are read and discussed." --Simon Gikandi, University of Michigan
Supriya Nair is Associate Professor of English, Tulane University.
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11. Caliban's Curse: George Lamming and the Revisioning of History
by Supriya Nair
 Hardcover: 184 Pages (1996-10-15)
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Ever present in the work of contemporary Barbadian novelist George Lamming, author of In the Castle of My Skin, Natives of My Person, The Emigrants, and The Pleasures of Exile, are the subjects of history and revolution. In Caliban's Curse, Supriya M. Nair traces these themes and situates Lamming's work within the ongoing discourses of nationalism and identity. Retracing the history of colonial intervention in the anglophone Caribbean and seeking connections among Africa, the Caribbean, and England, Caliban's Curse moves beyond the popular perception of the archipelago as an ahistorical tourist paradise and presents the islands as a space populated by the tragic and triumphant cultures of the black diaspora.
Caliban's Curse draws upon a range of theories--postcolonial, Marxist, and feminist--to contextualize the black diaspora of the modern Caribbean through one of its primary anglophone novelists. Putting George Lamming in conversation with such contemporaries as C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, and Wilson Harris, Nair argues that Lamming's works expand the protest of Shakespeare's Caliban to articulate a reinvention of Caribbean cultures. Both cursed by and cursing the weight of colonial history, Lamming works against the paralysis induced by such an encounter; his work serves to rewrite canonical icons and to reimagine popular cultures.
"Supriya Nair writes about the problems of history and social revolution with passion and clarity and an amazing range of critical and cultural reference. . . . She brings to existing studies of Lamming a wide and sustained knowledge of the forces that have shaped the West Indian novel, and the wider postcolonial debates in which these novels are read and discussed." --Simon Gikandi, University of Michigan
Supriya Nair is Associate Professor of English, Tulane University.
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12. In the Castle of My Skin
by George Lamming
 Paperback: Pages (1970)

Asin: B000LLXAKU
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13. In the Castle of My Skin
by George Lamming
 Hardcover: Pages (1954)

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14. Season of Adventure (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
by George Lamming
 Paperback: 368 Pages (1999-04-15)
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Asin: 0472066552
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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First published in 1960, Season of Adventure details the story of Fola, a light-skinned middle-class girl who has been tipped out of her easy hammock of social privilege into the complex political and cultural world of her recently independent homeland, the Caribbean island of San Cristobal. After attending a ceremony of the souls to raise the dead, she is carried off by the unrelenting accompaniment of steel drums onto a mysterious journey in search of her past and of her identity. Gradually, she is caught in the crossfire of a struggle between people who have "pawned their future to possessions" and those "condemned by lack of learning to a deeper truth." The music of the drums sounds throughout the novel, "loud as gospel to a believer's ears," and at the end stands alone as witness to the tradition which is slowly being destroyed in the name of European values.
Whether through literary production or public pronouncements, George Lamming has explored the phenomena of colonialism and imperialism and their impact on the psyche of Caribbean people. First published in 1960, Season of Adventure reveals not only these themes, but involves the reader in the analysis of the forms and discourses of resistance employed by the region's people in the course of reproducing their social existence.
George Lamming was born in Barbados, resides in London and teaches regularly in American universities. He is the author of In the Castle of My Skin, Natives of my Person, The Emigrants, and The Pleasures of Exile, also available from the University of Michigan Press.
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5-0 out of 5 stars One of the most influential books of my life!
Provides a powerful and insightful analysis on racism and colonization.Through his characters, Lamming paints a clear picture that allows us to see how racism not only affects its victims, but how it is also perpetuatedby its victims. This book explains how and why "sellouts,""Uncle Toms" and "Tio Tacos" exist. ... Read more


15. The Castle of My Skin
by George Lamming
 Hardcover: Pages (1954)

Asin: B000JIIHZ8
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16. Conversations II - Western Education & the Caribbean Intellectual
by George Lamming
Paperback: 103 Pages (2000-08-01)
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Asin: 0913441481
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Monographs in original English with French translation (essays on history, culture; Western/Caribbean intellectual tradition; critical analysis. Translation by Daniella Jeffry), Second printing (c) 2000. ... Read more


17. Natives of My Person (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
by George Lamming
 Paperback: 352 Pages (1991-03-01)
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Asin: 0472064673
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A compelling novel of slavery and colonialism
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18. In the Castle of My Skin
by George Lamming
 Hardcover: Pages (0000)

Asin: B00124IK1Y
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19. In the Castle of My Skin(Signed)
by George LAMMING
 Hardcover: 304 Pages

Isbn: 0582780195
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20. Water with berries
by George Lamming
 Unknown Binding: 248 Pages (1972)

Isbn: 0030014069
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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5-0 out of 5 stars A haunting novel
This is the story of a group of West Indian artists in London.It's frightening because it's West Indian.The violence of it's action, far from catering to a mindless sensationalism, works in the service of a fictional imagination that's deeply political. ... Read more


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