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2. In the Castle of My Skin
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lamming,George (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1953
- Published:
- New York: McGraw-Hill
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 312 p, In the Castle of My Skin, the first novel by Barbadian writer George Lamming, tells the story of the mundane events in a young boy's life that take place amid dramatic changes in the village and society in which he lives. Through his eyes, we see the effects of race, feudalism, capitalism, education, the labor movement, violent riots, and emigration on his small town and, by extension, on Caribbean society as a whole.
3. Ten is the Age of Darkness: The Black Bildungsroman
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- LeSeur,Geta J. (Author)
- Format:
- Monograph
- Publication Date:
- 1995
- Published:
- Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 233 p, Contents: Introduction. "Out of Many, One": A Case of Multiple Childhoods -- I. "The Ending Up Is the Starting Out": The Bildungsroman Re/formed -- II. "Behold the Great Image of Authority": African West Indian Male Initiation -- III. "His Great Struggle Beginning": African American Male Initiation -- IV. Womanish Girls: African American Female Initiation -- V. Journeys to Selfhood: African West Indian Female Initiation -- Conclusion. Ten Is the Age of Darkness -- Chronology of the African American Bildungsroman -- Chronology of the African West Indian Bildungsroman