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    Culture and class consciousness: a study of george lamming’s in the castle of my skin
    (UB, Faculty of arts and social sciences, 2014) NAHIMANA, Gustave; Supervisor : Mr. Nganyu Dominic Nformi
    This work examines the culture and class consciousness in the British colonial Barbados in particular and of the Caribbean in general through the study of George Lamming’s In The Castle of My Skin. Indeed, it seeks to discover the impacts of the social division of the society and the enculturation process on the colonized people. The Research is carried out on the hypothesis that cultural dislocation and Class domination lead to identity crisis and confusion. Written against the backdrop of New Historicism, the work demonstrates how the colonial enterprise fragmented the indigenous culture and strategically instilled a new one on the colonized people. This study seeks to explore the effects of this social class division and culture domination on the fractured mind of the individuals as depicted in the novel understudy. It concludes that cultural orphanage and class domination enhance identity crisis on the natives, and reveals that awareness of this identity crisis inevitably leads to the struggle for self-assertion.