Helen Thomas examines the ways in which Caryl Phillips responds both creatively and critically to the psychological effects of cultural dispersal, racism and economic exploitation in the black Atlantic. Highlighting the continuing negotiations between Britain and its previous colonies, this study demonstrates the ways in which Phillips's fictional and non-fictional work reformulates contemporary and historical traumatic crises and corresponding agents of survival. Phillips's work is discussed not only in terms of critical emphasis upon past events, but also in terms of its vision of a more expansive dimension of collective experience.
| ISBN: | 9780746311240 |
| Publication date: | 15th May 2005 |
| Author: | Helen Thomas |
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 100 pages |
| Series: | Writers and Their Work |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
Helen Thomas examines the ways in which Caryl Phillips responds both creatively and critically to the psychological effects of cultural dispersal, racism and economic exploitation in the black Atlantic. Highlighting the continuing negotiations between Britain and its previous colonies, this study demonstrates the ways in which Phillips's fictional and non-fictional work reformulates contemporary and historical traumatic crises and corresponding agents of survival. Phillips's work is discussed not only in terms of critical emphasis upon past events, but also in terms of its vision of a more expansive dimension of collective experience.
Caryl Phillips features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Caryl Phillips is available in Hardback
Caryl Phillips was written by Helen Thomas and published by Liverpool University Press
Caryl Phillips has 100 pages
Yes it is part of Writers and Their Work series