Family and Identity in Caryl Phillips’s Fiction, in particular A Distant Shore
Family relationships are central to the way Caribbean writers define their identities. This is particularly the case of Caryl Phillips. Most of his fiction presents the family as a site of disruption, but also includes examples of surrogate parenthood, which reflect the complexity of the writer’s id...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Język: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Dostęp online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Streszczenie: | Family relationships are central to the way Caribbean writers define their identities. This is particularly the case of Caryl Phillips. Most of his fiction presents the family as a site of disruption, but also includes examples of surrogate parenthood, which reflect the complexity of the writer’s identity conundrum. The discussion focuses on Phillips’s 2003 novel A Distant Shore. |
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