| CircumSpice | Spring 1999 | p.7 |
The Friends of the City College Library
The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities at CCNY
and the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora
in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC)
present
George Lamming
Readings, Discussion, Book Signing
Tuesday, April 13th, 1999 – 5:30 p.m.
The first U.S. publication of George Lamming’s Season of Adventure, coupled with new editions of In the Castle of My Skin and Natives of My Person reinforce the prominence of our National Library Week Program featured speaker. When In the Castle of My Skin was first published in 1953, its success placed Mr. Lamming in the vanguard of great Caribbean writers on the subjects of de-colonialism and national reconstruction. It has since become a classic of Caribbean fiction.
The Dictionary of Literary Biography states that Mr. Lamming “conceptualized core facets of the Caribbean experience in language and forms that continue to exercise a shaping influence over the literature of the region.” Mr. Lamming is 1998-1999 Visiting Professor of Creative Writing in the CCNY English Department and Fulbright Scholar in Residence at IRADAC.
Reception to follow.
Cohen Library, Archives, 5th Floor/NAC
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact the Chief Librarian's Office
at 650-7271 or the Rifkind Center at 650-7367.
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