Caryl Phillips: Introduction
“A desperate foolishness. The crops failed. I sold my children.” With these three short sentences, the opening lines of his fifth novel, Crossing the River, Caryl Phillips undertook an imaginative and intellectual journey that would involve an active engagement with a subject which had become a cru...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | “A desperate foolishness. The crops failed. I sold my children.” With these three short sentences, the opening lines of his fifth novel, Crossing the River, Caryl Phillips undertook an imaginative and intellectual journey that would involve an active engagement with a subject which had become a crucial and difficult one for writers on both sides of the Atlantic – the legacy of the slave trade. When he published the novel in 1993 he had already written four other novels focusing on the effect... |
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