“Creative Biography”: Fiction and Non-fiction in Caryl Phillips’s Foreigners: Three English Lives
This article explores the relationship between fiction and non-fiction in Phillips’s Foreigners: Three English Lives. Through examination of the questions raised by differing reader expectations related to fiction and biography, a critical frame for understanding the way in which Phillips combines f...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Online Access: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | This article explores the relationship between fiction and non-fiction in Phillips’s Foreigners: Three English Lives. Through examination of the questions raised by differing reader expectations related to fiction and biography, a critical frame for understanding the way in which Phillips combines fictional and non-fictional approaches in this hybrid work is proposed, relying partly on Paul Ricoeur’s ideas of narrative identity and witnessing. |
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