"in 1953, George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin appeared and everything was transformed. Here breathing to me from every pore of line and page, was the Barbados I have lived. The words, the rhythms, the cadences, the scenes, the people, their predicament. They all came back. They all were possible. And all the more beautiful for having been published and praised by London, mother of metropolises."
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Brown University facultyDuke University facultyAnthologists20th-century male writersNovelists from Barbados
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Kamau Brathwaite, "Timehri" (1970) anthologized in The Routledge reader in Caribbean Literature edited by Alison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh (1996)
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George Lamming
George William Lamming OCC (born and died in Barbados; 8 June 1927 – 4 June 2022) was a writer and professor.
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