Thoughts on Pa’s Dream in Lamming’s In The Castle of My Skin
Been reading with some basic writing the last month. But I’ve started to put things together in terms of getting this section on In the Castle of My Skin formally written up. ******** Distinct from the...
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In my reading of The Black Jacobins I suggested that James’s theory of tragedy revealed the extent to which he failed to represent the mass subject as a historical process. Ultimately, James faltered...
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Structure and Subject in In the Castle of My Skin
Lamming’s comments in “The Occasion for Speaking” offer the theoretical clues to understanding the intentions and approach of In the Castle of My Skin. It is perhaps one of his main contentions, that...
View Article“Common sense” and historical consciousness in Lamming’s In the Castle of My...
Gramsci’s theorization of the relationship between popular and historical consciousness may be useful here. Like Lamming, a central problem of his work is how are subjects transformed from passive...
View ArticleFrom popular to historical consciousness in In the Castle of My Skin?
However, at this point certain questions must be raised. In representing the effects of structure Lamming does not do so through an epistemological refusal of experience. Yet so far the novel has...
View ArticleIn the Castle of My Skin, the Caribbean novel, and the historical conjuncture...
The episode of Pa’s dream-speech is exactly that point when the novel shifts, marking the introduction of G.’s full differentiation from the village, initiating his heightened self-consciousness of...
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Wilson Harris’s Critique of the Caribbean Novel
If In the Castle of My Skin suggests that the production of the Caribbean novel is inextricably bound up with the historical conditions that, in the end, make it possible, Wilson Harris...
View ArticleThe Caribbean Novel and the Realization of History in the Era of Decolonization
C.L.R. James once suggested that novelists in the Caribbean have been its historians. It is difficult to assess such an idea unless we take into account the set of historical experiences and...
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