In the Castle of My Skin | Suggested Reading

In the Castle of My Skin What Do I Read Next?

In the Castle of My Skin was Lamming's first novel. In the same decade that this novel appeared, he also published three other important works of fiction: The Emigrants (1955), Of Age and Innocence (1958), and A Season of Adventure (1960). Each of these novels explores dimensions of the life experiences of Caribbean people interacting with colonial powers.

The Pleasures of Exile (1960), Lamming's "seminal work of self-inquiry and cultural assessment in the context of Caribbean cultural life," as described by Sandra Pouchet Paquet in

The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature, may be Lamming's most influential and most-read book.

Born on Martinique and of the same generation as Lamming, Frantz Fanon is a writer whose works of cultural criticism and theory formed the intellectual structure for many of the anticolonial independence movements of the 1960s and 1970s. His most famous works, Black Skin, White Masks (1954) and...
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