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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, through the eyes of a young boy, Lamming portrays the social, racial, political and urban struggles with which Barbados continues to grapple even with some thirty-three years of Political Independence from Britain.
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Earnest, grave, prestige and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- George Lamming
- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 313
- Publisher
- Longman, Longman Publishing Group, Schocken Books
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- und, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780241296066
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