Caryl Phillips’s Genealogies / / edited by Delphine Munos, Evelyn O’Callaghan and Mathilde Mergeai.

• Superior document: Cross/Cultures ; 220
• TeilnehmendeR: O’Callaghan, Evelyn,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/Cultures ; 220.; Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (285 pages)

Thematically and structurally, the work of the Kittitian-British writer Caryl Phillips reimagines the notion of genealogy. Phillips's fiction, drama, and non-fiction foreground broken filiations and forever-deferred promises of new affiliations in the aftermath of slavery and colonization. His texts are also in dialogue with multiple historical figures and literary influences, imagining around the life of the African American comedian Bert Williams and the Caribbean writer Jean Rhys, or retelling the story of Othello. Additionally, Phillips's work resonates with that of other writers and visual artists, such as Derek Walcott, Toni Morrison, or Isaac Julien. Written to honor the career of renown Phillipsian scholar Bénédicte Ledent, the contributions to this volume, including one by Phillips himself, explore the multiple ramifications of genealogy, across and beyond Phillips's work.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Delphine Munos , Evelyn O'Callaghan , and Mathilde Mergeai -- Copyright Page / Delphine Munos , Evelyn O'Callaghan , and Mathilde Mergeai -- Chapter 1 The Space of Crossing / Stephen Clingman -- Chapter 2 "My Foolish Voice" / Kathie Birat -- Chapter 3 Dialogues with History / Kerry-Jane Wallart -- Chapter 4 A Genealogy of the Recognition of Blackness in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge and Foreigners: Three English Lives / Malica S. Willie -- Chapter 5 Autogenealogies / Louise Yelin -- Chapter 6 Translating Caryl Phillips / Christine Pagnoulle -- Chapter 7 European vs. African Gendered Genealogies / Pilar Cuder-Domínguez -- Chapter 8 Putting His Words in Her Mouth? / Evelyn O'Callaghan -- Chapter 9 Cross-sexing the River and Messing with Order / Bastien Bomans -- Chapter 10 A Caribbean Voice / Carine Mardorossian -- Chapter 11 Formal Innovation and Cinematic Imagination in Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark / Su Ping -- Chapter 12 The Gentle Strength of Literary Appreciation / Alison Donnell -- Chapter 13 Luminary of the Liège Legacy / Peter H. Marsden -- Chapter 14 A Bulwark against Intolerance and Hospitality as Praxis / Maria Cristina Fumagalli -- Chapter 15 A View of the Empress at Sunset / Marie Herbillon -- Chapter 16 A Letter to Béné / Marc Delrez.