George Lamming, a Barbadian author who placed the legacy of colonialism at the center of his novels and essays, acquiring a reputation as one of the finest Caribbean writers of his generation, has died.
, Mr. Lamming helped define a new West Indian literature in the middle decades of the 20th century, exploring issues of history, politics, language and freedom at a time when colonial rule was giving way to independence.Raised on a former sugar plantation outside Bridgetown, he wrote books that highlighted the experience of people who were marginalized because of their race, language, gender or income, and spread a message of liberation and inclusion in his essays and speeches.
It was difficult, he noted, to forge a new identity after years of colonialism. “I had always lived in the shadow of a meaning which others had placed on my presence in the world,” an independence leader observes in “Age and Innocence,” “and I had played no part at all in making that meaning, like a chair which is wholly at the mercy of the idea guiding the hand of the man who builds it.”
The book won the Somerset Maugham Award for young writers in Britain and was praised by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o and American novelist Richard Wright, who wrote the introduction to the U.S. edition. Mr. Lamming later worked at a boarding school in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, teaching English to Hispanic students, before moving to England in 1950, sailing on the same ship as Trinidadian writer Samuel Selvon. “If I had not gone to England,” heAfter working at a factory in London, Mr. Lamming landed a job at the BBC Colonial Service, where he was an announcer for shows including “Caribbean Voices,” an influential platform for writers from the West Indies.
With his booming, gravelly voice and crown of graying hair, Mr. Lamming acquired a wide array of admirers, including Canadian novelist and short-story writer Margaret Laurence. They had a brief affair, according to her biographer James King, and she moved to London with her children in an unsuccessful bid to settle down with Mr. Lamming. By 1967 Mr.
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