Caryl Phillips

by Helen Thomas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746309562
• ISBN13: 9780746309568
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"