Disrupting the Master Narrative: An Interview with Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips was born in the Caribbean and raised in England. His work deals with the African diaspora and related topics. Phillips has written a number of dramas and screenplays, but he is best known for his six novels: The Final Passage (1985), A State of Independence (1986), Higher Ground (1989...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Summary: | Caryl Phillips was born in the Caribbean and raised in England. His work deals with the African diaspora and related topics. Phillips has written a number of dramas and screenplays, but he is best known for his six novels: The Final Passage (1985), A State of Independence (1986), Higher Ground (1989), Cambridge (1991), Crossing the River (1993), and The Nature of Blood (1997). He has also published two collections of essays, The European Tribe in 1987 and The Atlantic Sound in 2000. This interview was conducted on April 29, 1999 at the University of Massachusetts as part of a research project on the writings of Caryl Phillips, Michael Ondaatje, and J.M. Coetzee. In this interview, Phillips praises Ondaatje and Coetzee, whom he admires for their resistance to easy categorization, and he speaks of his own need to upset narrative conventions in order to more accurately portray people whose lives have been disrupted by diasporic experiences. He also sheds new light on the stylistic and thematic choices he made in constructing The Nature of Blood, his most recent work of fiction. |
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