The Emigrants (Lamming novel)
Coming-of-age novel | |
Publisher | Michael Joseph |
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Publication date | 1954 |
Media type | |
Preceded by | In the Castle of My Skin |
Followed by | Of Age and Innocence |
The Emigrants is a 1954 novel by Barbadian writer George Lamming, a sequel to his debut autobiographical book In the Castle of My Skin, following the life of the same protagonist as he travels from Barbados to England in search of better prospects and opportunities.[1][2] Lamming "experimented with the form of the novel as he sought to portray an original historical experience: the immigration of Caribbean peoples to Britain."[3]
The Emigrants was first published in London by
Reception
According to Kirkus Reviews in 1955: "There is much that is individual here -- the evoking of mood, the power in presenting characters separately in a group; there is also much evidence of Joycean and Existentialist fraternity which may eventually merge into the author's thought and style less obtrusively. Perhaps the ambiguity which filters through the book is necessary to the sense of groping, almost a wooziness, which encircles the reader. A book of serious intent."[5]
References
- The British Library. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
- doi:10.25098/5.2.20. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
- . Retrieved 26 March 2022.
- ^ "The Emigrants". University of Michigan Press.
- ^ "The Emigrants". Kirkus. 1 April 1955. Retrieved 26 March 2022.