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...John Perse (Seamarks) was born on an islet off Guadeloupe. Edgar Mittelholzer (Shadows Move Among Them) came from British Guiana. V. S. Naipaul (A House for Mr. Biswas) grew up in Trinidad. George Lamming (In the Castle of My Skin) is a Barbadian. In the last generation, a torrent of literary talent has come surging out of the Caribbean like a Gulf Stream of the spirit. In the new generation, the stream has been strengthened by a number of remarkable young writers-among them an important lyric poet (Derek Walcott), an insightful critic (L. E. Brathwaite) and dozens of gifted...
...West Indies look like the approaches to paradise. Ashore, the tourist quickly learns that many of the most intelligent natives spend a lot of time figuring out ways and means to escape from their Eden. The best fictional intro duction in years to their state of mind was Barbadian George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin (TiME, Nov. 9, 1953), a poetic memoir of island youth that plotted the colored man's course from careless innocence to gnawing discontent. In The Emigrants, a boatload of the discontented are on their way to England and a better...