Biography EssayGeorge Lamming is one of the great Caribbean writers on the subjects of decolonization and national reconstruction. He matured as a novelist of the Englishspeaking Caribbean at a crucia...
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George Lamming is one the great Caribbean writers on the subjects of decolonization and national reconstruction. He matured as a novelist of the English-speaking Caribbean at a crucial period in Carib...
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In the following review, the commentator voices his displeasure with Lamming's circumlocutory writing style.
Ostensibly, Natives of My Person is about a voyage undertaken by a slave ship, th...
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In the following essay, Tiffin examines the underlying themes of enslavement and empowerment in Lamming's Natives of My Person and Water with Berries.
I had felt the wind rocking me with the...
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In the following essay, Tiffin explores the interactions among characters in Lamming's Water with Berries and V. S. Naipaul's Guerrillas.
In A House for Mr. Biswas V. S. Naipaul in wh...
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In the following essay, Brown studies the autobiographical aspects of the character “G” in Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin, giving special consideration to the effect that Lamm...
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In the following review of the reprinting of Lamming's The Pleasures of Exile, Dasenbrock laments that the book has not aged well and finds it to be bitter and illogical.
I am a little perpl...
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In the following interview, conducted November 12, 1985, Birbalsingh and Lamming converse about African and Caribbean literature and the effects of national experience on a writer.
[Birbalsingh:] L...
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In the following essay, McDonald examines the symbolic representations contained in Natives of My Person.
In the last few decades there has been a resurgence and re-evaluation of allegory both as a...
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In the following review, Dasenbrock admires Lamming's attempt at the blending of historical fiction and allegory, but finds that Lamming's narrative fluctuates too often between the two ...
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In the following interview, conducted by Paul Buhle on November 25, 1987, Lamming discusses C. L. R. James's writing and the effect it has on other West Indian writers, including Lamming himsel...
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In the following essay, Jonas examines the essence of the “Trickster” and shows the instances of this imaginary creature presiding over Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin.
West...
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In the following essay, Cooke studies the effect gender has on the tone of a “coming of age” novel written by a Caribbean writer. In the Castle of My Skin is written from the male standp...
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In the following essay, ten Kortenaar discusses his displeasure with In the Castle of My Skin, finding fault with Lamming's wordiness, insufficient character development, and lack of plot cohes...
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In the following essay, Rohlehr examines the political metaphors and instances of allegory in Season of Adventure.
The tendency to employ ecstatic possession as metaphor of the descent into the unc...
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In the following essay, Hulme examines the reworking of Shakespeare's The Tempest in many of Lamming's works.
The colonial situation is a matter of historical record. What I'm ...
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In the following essay, Bass finds many similarities among American Richard Wright's Black Boy, South African Ezekiel Mphahlele's Down Second Avenue, and Caribbean George Lamming'...
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In the following essay, Williams compares the strong mother figures in Wright's Black Boy, Laye's The Dark Child, and Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin, and analyzes their effect...
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In the following essay, Kirpal defends In the Castle of My Skin in light of Neil ten Kortenaar's negative critical review (Ariel 22:2 April, 1991). Kirpal evaluates the novel from a different p...
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George Lamming
George (William) Lamming
Critical Review by Times Literary Supplement
