LINKS

Study Guide for In the Castle of My Skin
A useful set of questions for thinking about each chapter.

A Brief Introduction to George Lamming
From Post Colonial Studies at Emory

A Brief History of Barbados
From barbados.org--not very much, but useful

An Essay on In the Castle of My Skin
An interesting essay--useful as a catalyst to your own views of the novel

An Introduction to Post Colonial Studies
The broader category for Post Colonial Literature

"Bussa," Emancipation Sculpture, Barbados
Bussa inspired a slave revolt in 1816

Recovered Histories; Reawakening the Narratives of Enslavement
Website by Anti-Slavery International of the literature of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, with a section on the Caribbean

A Brief History of Labor and Unions in the Caribbean
Apropos of Mr. Slime's Society and Penny Bank, and the
the unrest at the end of Chapter 9

Caribbean Islands--A Country Study
By the Federal Research Division of the
Library of Congress--1987--a lot of useful
historical, economic, and political info

Interactive Map of the Caribbean
Excellent--from World Atlas.com

George Lamming reads from "In the Castle of My Skin"
From the Caribbean Writers Summer Institute at the
University of Miami, 1991(Requires RealOne Player)

The Caribbean Writers Summer Institutes
Archival Video Selection
An extremely valuable site--well worth checking