History as Now: Allegorical (Re)visions of the Slave Experience in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River (1993)

This paper turns an analytical eye to Caryl Phillips’s novel Crossing the River as an exemplary piece of postcolonial historical fiction, which aims to reconstruct the historical experience of those once deprived of a documented past. It reads the novel through an allegorical realist paradigm and ar...

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Auteur principal: Frątczak, Marta
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2021
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