Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River and the Chorus of Archival Memory
Starting from the vocal nature of Crossing the River, this article looks at Caryl Phillips’s archives housed at the Beinecke Library and thereby attempts to retrieve the voices that did not make it into the book, but which are nonetheless important pieces in the writer’s imaginative universe. This a...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | Starting from the vocal nature of Crossing the River, this article looks at Caryl Phillips’s archives housed at the Beinecke Library and thereby attempts to retrieve the voices that did not make it into the book, but which are nonetheless important pieces in the writer’s imaginative universe. This article will refer to three thematically linked radio plays as well as an early draft of the third section of the 1993 novel. |
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