Rich Man in His Castle, Poor Ones Take the Street: Integrating the ‘Canonical’ Text and Popular Culture – A study on the novel, In the Castle of My Sk-Fast Shipping

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It has been established that West Indian literature has played a role in the nationalist aim to validate Afro-Creole contributions to the creation of Caribbean civilization. This study examines how a literary text draws on popular culture to do this.

The study also includes an interview with Dr. George Lamming who responds to the hypotheses advanced in the study.