Caryl Phillips : : writing in the key of life /

Caryl Phillips : : writing in the key of life / / edited by Bénédicte Ledent and Daria Tunca.

Writing 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 incisi...

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Superior document:Readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 146
TeilnehmendeR:
Ledent, Bénédicte.
Tunca, Daria.
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi B.V.,, 2012.
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Cross/Cultures 146.
Physical Description:1 online resource (438 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Oxford / Peter H. Marsden
  • Preamble / Caryl Phillips
  • Colour Me English / Caryl Phillips
  • Caryl Phillips and the Question of Political Identity: Wrestling with Prejudice / Kirpal Singh
  • Conversations with Caryl Phillips: Reflections upon an Intellectual Life / Renée Schatteman
  • Plural Selves: The Dispersion of the Autobiographical Subject in the Essays of Caryl Phillips / Louise Yelin
  • “Look liberty in the face”: Determinism and Free Will in Caryl Phillips’s Foreigners: Three English Lives / Bénédicte Ledent
  • Hybrid Inventiveness: Caryl Phillips’s Black-Atlantic Subjectivity – The European Tribe and The Atlantic Sound / Joan Miller Powell
  • Vido, Not Sir Vidia: Caryl Phillips’s Encounters with V.S. Naipaul / John Mcleod
  • A New World’s Twilight: Ethics of the Caribbean Writer in Caryl Phillips’s and Derek Walcott’s Essays / Malik Ferdinand
  • Caryl Phillips’s “Heartland” and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: Revisiting Fear – An Intertextual Approach / Imen Najar
  • Linking Legacies of Loss: Traumatic Histories and Cross-Cultural Empathy in Caryl Phillips’s Higher Ground and The Nature of Blood / Stef Craps
  • Bidirectional Revision: The Connection between Past and Present in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River / Fatim Boutros
  • “The cloud of ambivalence”: Exploring Diasporan Identity in Caryl Phillips’s The Atlantic Sound and A New World Order / Abigail Ward
  • Caryl Phillips’s Seascapes of the Imaginary / Wendy Knepper
  • The Dis-ease of Multiple Identities: The Nature of Diasporan Identity in Caryl Phillips’s Strange Fruit / Chika Unigwe
  • A New World Tribe in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore / Alessandra Di Maio
  • Dorothy’s Heart of Darkness: How Europe Meets Africa in A Distant Shore / Sandra Courtman
  • Negotiating Inclusion in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore / Thomas Bonnici
  • Strange Encounters: Nationhood and the Stranger in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore / Petra Tournay–Theodotou
  • The Civilized Pretence: Caryl Phillips and A Distant Shore / Cindy Gabrielle
  • Omnipresent and Everlasting Imperialism: Race and Gender Oppression in Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge and A Distant Shore / Lucie Gillet
  • The Dilemma of a Black Entertainer: A Contextualized Reading of Caryl Phillips’s Dancing in the Dark / Tsunehiko Kato
  • The Mask and the Unheimlich in Caryl Phillips’s Dancing in the Dark / Itala Vivan
  • Concentric and Centripetal Narratives of Race: Caryl Phillips’s Dancing in the Dark and Percival Everett’s Erasure / Dave Gunning
  • The Dynamic of Revelation and Concealment: In the Falling Snow and the Narrational Architecture of Blighted Existences / Gordon Collier
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index.

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