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Caryl Phillips Writing in the Key of Life
No full textIntro -- Caryl Phillips: Writing in the Key of Life -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I CARYL PHILLIPS: 25 YEARS OF WRITING -- Oxford -- Preamble -- Colour Me English -- Caryl Phillips and the Question of Political Identity: Wrestling with Prejudice -- II CRITICAL ESSAYS -- AUTOBIOGRAPHY, FACT, AND FICTION -- Conversations with Caryl Phillips: Reflections upon an Intellectual Life -- Plural Selves: The Dispersion of the Autobiographical Subject in the Essays of Caryl Phillips -- "Look liberty in the face": Determinism and Free Will in Caryl Phillips's Foreigners: Three English Lives -- Hybrid Inventiveness: Caryl Phillips's Black-Atlantic Subjectivity - The European Tribe and The Atlantic Sound -- CARYL PHILLIPS AND THE OTHER WRITERS -- Vido, Not Sir Vidia: Caryl Phillips's Encounters with V.S. Naipaul -- A New World's Twilight: Ethics of the Caribbean Writer in Caryl Phillips's and Derek Walcott's Essays -- Caryl Phillips's "Heartland" and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: Revisiting Fear - An Intertextual Approach -- DIASPORAS -- Linking Legacies of Loss: Traumatic Histories and Cross-Cultural Empathy in Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground and The Nature of Blood -- Bidirectional Revision: The Connection between Past and Present in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River -- "The cloud of ambivalence": Exploring Diasporan Identity in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound and A New World Order -- Caryl Phillips's Seascapes of the Imaginary -- The Dis-ease of Multiple Identities: The Nature of Diasporan Identity in Caryl Phillips's Strange Fruit -- BRITAIN AND ITS 'OTHERS' -- A New World Tribe in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore -- Dorothy's Heart of Darkness: How Europe Meets Africa in A Distant Shore -- Negotiating Inclusion in Caryl Phillips's A Distant ShoreStrange Encounters: Nationhood and the Stranger in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore -- The Civilized Pretence: Caryl Phillips and A Distant Shore -- RACE AND MASKS -- Omnipresent and Everlasting Imperialism: Race and Gender Oppression in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge and A Distant Shore -- The Dilemma of a Black Entertainer: A Contextualized Reading of Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark -- The Mask and the Unheimlich in Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark -- Concentric and Centripetal Narratives of Race: Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark and Percival Everett's Erasure -- The Dynamic of Revelation and Concealment: In the Falling Snow and the Narrational Architecture of Blighted Existences -- Notes on Contributors -- IndexDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Caryl Phillips, Radio Plays
No full textpeer reviewedCaryl Phillips is an award-winning author best known for his fiction, essays and stage plays. But he has also written radio plays, nine of which were broadcast by the BBC between 1984 and 2016. Previously locked away in Phillips’s archives, housed at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, these hidden gems are now published in Caryl Phillips’s Radio Plays, the first collection of these important works of drama
Pitt à pawol de Caryl Phillips. Entretien
No full textPhillips Caryl, Birat Kathie, Alliot Bénédicte. Pitt à pawol de Caryl Phillips. Entretien. In: Cahiers Charles V, n°31, décembre 2001. Écritures et représentations des diasporas. pp. 129-140
An Hour with Caryl Phillips
No full textAn Hour with Caryl Phillips, chaired by Gordon Campbell. Phillips reads "Heartland" from his novel Higher Ground (8'00") followed by discussion with Campbell (27'00") and audience questions that where cut short (20'00"). Radio New Zealand recording, Writers and Readers Week, Wellington 14/03/1990
"Encountering Chapter One": Caryl Phillips in Conversation with Bénédicte Ledent
No full textInterview with Caryl Phillips focusing on the Caribbean dimension of his wor
Caryl Phillips and Diasporic Identities : Analysis on The Final Passage and The Atlantic Sound
No full textCaryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts in 1958. Among contemporary Caribbean writers, Phillips is distinguished by his deep insight into the postcolonial world. Diaspora, which considers the loosened relationships among the people of African descent in postcolonial societies, is one of major themes in Phillip’s works. The idea of diaspora is more widely recognized today since many writers of African descent criticize black essentialism. This paper particularly focuses on diasporic aspects of Caryl Phillips, and argues that he presents contemporary Black Atlantic relationships through his understanding of identity and diaspora, by analyzing his novel, The Final Passage (1985) and his book-length essay, The Atlantic Sound (2000).departmental bulletin pape
The Civilized Pretence: Caryl Phillips and A Distant Shore
No full textpeer reviewedIt is tempting to argue that, in A Distant Shore, Caryl Phillips entrusts a black gentleman with the mission to civilize uncouth English people. My contention, however, is to try and show the extent to which the text itself undermines the very idea that decency is a safeguard against savagery.
If immigration indeed reveals English people’s inner darkness, it is also the case that the mask of good manners worn by Solomon or Dorothy gradually falls apart. In the end, dignified behaviour, once defined by Dorothy as essential to the distinction between human beings and animals, is exposed as a mere civilized pretence
Caryl Phillips: Writing in the Key of Life
No full textWriting in the Key of Life is the first critical collection devoted to the British-Caribbean author Caryl Phillips, a major voice in contemporary anglophone literatures. Phillips’s impressive body of fiction, drama, and non-fiction has garnered wide praise for its formal inventiveness and its incisive social criticism as well as its unusually sensitive understanding of the human condition.
The twenty-six contributions offered here, including two by Phillips himself, address the fundamental issues that have preoccupied the writer in his now three-decades-long career – the enduring legacy of history, the intricate workings of identity, and the pervasive role of race, class, and gender in societies worldwide.
Most of Phillips’s writing is covered here, in essays that approach it from various thematic and interpretative angles. These include the interplay of fact and fiction, Phillips’s sometimes ambiguous literary affiliations, his long-standing interest in the black and Jewish diasporas, his exploration of Britain and its ‘Others’, and his recurrent use of motifs such as masking and concealment.
Writing in the Key of Life testifies to the vitality of Phillipsian scholarship and confirms the significance of an artist whose concerns, at once universal and topical, find particular resonance with the state of the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century
Recall this Book 72: Caryl Phillips Speaks with Corina Stan (Novel Dialogue Crossover)
No full textOur second January Novel Dialogue conversation is with Caryl Phillips, professor of English at Yale and world-renowned for novels ranging from The Final Passage to 2018’s A View of the Empire at Sunset. He shares his thoughts on transplantation, on performance, on race, even on sports. Joining him here are John and the wonderful comparatist Corina Stan, author of The Art of Distances: Ethical Thinking in 20th century Literature. If you enjoy this conversation, range backwards through the RtB archives for comparable talks with Jennifer Egan, Helen Garner, Orhan Pamuk, Zadie Smith, Samuel Delany and many more
Caryl Phillips's "Heartland" and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: Revisiting Fear - An Intertextual Approach
No full textpeer reviewedThis article aims at an intertextual reading that brings together Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Caryl Phillips's "Heartland," the opening section of Higher Ground. It analyzes major aspects that the texts obviously share such as the terror that binds the colonizer and the colonized under the banner of colonialism in Africa. Yet, one of the focal issues of this article is to show that Caryl Phillips goes beyond the recuperation of Conradian types and situations to explore features and attitudes that have been ignored in Heart of Darkness in particular and in colonial writing in general. His work gestures towards a wider and sometimes a corrective understanding of colonial reality and colonial writing
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