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Author:   Benedicte Ledent ,  Daria Tunca
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   146
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.831kg
ISBN:  

9789042034556

ISBN 10:   9042034556
Pages:   442
Publication Date:   01 January 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Benedicte Ledent and Daria Tunca: Introduction I Caryl Phillips: 25 Years of Writing Peter H. Marsden: Oxford Caryl Phillips: Preamble Caryl Phillips: Colour Me English Kirpal Singh: Caryl Phillips and the Question of Political Identity: Wrestling with Prejudice II Critical Essays Autobiography, Fact, and Fiction Renee Schatteman: Conversations with Caryl Phillips: Reflections upon an Intellectual Life Louise Yelin: Plural Selves: The Dispersion of the Autobiographical Subject in the Essays of Caryl Phillips Benedicte Ledent: Look liberty in the face : Determinism and Free Will in Caryl Phillips's Foreigners: Three English Lives Joan Miller Powell: Hybrid Inventiveness: Caryl Phillips's Black-Atlantic Subjectivity - The European Tribe and The Atlantic Sound Caryl Phillips and the Other Writers John McLeod: Vido, Not Sir Vidia: Caryl Phillips's Encounters with V.S. Naipaul Malik Ferdinand: A New World's Twilight: Ethics of the Caribbean Writer in Caryl Phillips's and Derek Walcott's Essays Imen Najar: Caryl Phillips's Heartland and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: Revisiting Fear - An Intertextual Approach Diasporas Stef Craps: Linking Legacies of Loss: Traumatic Histories and Cross-Cultural Empathy in Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground and The Nature of Blood Fatim Boutros: Bidirectional Revision: The Connection between Past and Present in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River Abigail Ward: The cloud of ambivalence : Exploring Diasporan Identity in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound and A New World Order Wendy Knepper: Caryl Phillips's Seascapes of the Imaginary Chika Unigwe: The Dis-ease of Multiple Identities: The Nature of Diasporan Identity in Caryl Phillips's Strange Fruit Britain and Its 'Others' Alessandra Di Maio: A New World Tribe in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore Sandra Courtman: Dorothy's Heart of Darkness: How Europe Meets Africa in A Distant Shore Thomas Bonnici: Negotiating Inclusion in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore Petra Tournay-Theodotou: Strange Encounters: Nationhood and the Stranger in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore Cindy Gabrielle: The Civilized Pretence: Caryl Phillips and A Distant Shore Race and Masks Lucie Gillet: Omnipresent and Everlasting Imperialism: Race and Gender Oppression in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge and A Distant Shore Tsunehiko Kato: The Dilemma of a Black Entertainer: A Contextualized Reading of Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark Itala Vivan: The Mask and the Unheimlich in Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark Dave Gunning: Concentric and Centripetal Narratives of Race: Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark and Percival Everett's Erasure Gordon Collier: The Dynamic of Revelation and Concealment: In the Falling Snow and the Narrational Architecture of Blighted Existences Notes on Contributors Index

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A remarkable useful volume that will prove crucial for scholars working on the Caribbean but also on issues of contemporary Britishness/Englishness and the like. - Kerry-Jane Wallart, University of Paris-Sorbonne

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Benedicte Ledent teaches English language and Caribbean literature in the English Department of the University of Liege (Belgium). She is the author of a book on Caryl Phillips and of numerous articles on contemporary Caribbean fiction, and editor or co-editor of essay collections on pan-Caribbean literature and African literature in Europe. Daria Tunca is a postdoctoral researcher in the English Department of the University of Liege. Her research focuses on stylistic approaches to African literatures, with a particular emphasis on contemporary Nigerian fiction.

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