Additional Resources for In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming

In the Castle of My Skin Further Reading

Cudjoe, Selwyn, Resistance and Caribbean Literature, Ohio University Press, 1980.

Although this critical study does not write specifically about In the Castle of My Skin, it discusses the themes of political and cultural resistance to oppression and racism in a number of Caribbean novels, including Lamming's later works Of Age and Innocence and Water with Berries.

Parry, J. H., and P. M. Sherlock, A Short History of the West Indies, Macmillan, 1968.

Written in the mid-1960s, this book is certainly out of date, but as a brief history of all of the islands of the Caribbean up to approximately 1962, the book is more than sufficient. It is especially good at addressing the changing political relationships between the colonies and their colonial powers.

Taylor, Patrick, The Narrative of Liberation, Cornell University Press, 1989.

Taylor's book examines a number of topics such as Frantz Fanon, voodoo,...
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