Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred d'Aguiar: Representations of Slavery

by Abigail Ward

Slavery is a recurring subject in works by the contemporary black writers in Britain Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar, yet their return to this past arises from an urgent need to understand the racial anxieties of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Britain. Now available in paperback, this book examines the ways in which their literary explorations of slavery may shed light on current issues in Britain today, or what might be thought...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719097649
• ISBN13: 9780719097645
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"