Extravagant Strangers : A Literature of Belonging - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0571190863 ISBN 13 : 9780571190867

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 1998

Synopsis

An anthology about what it means to be British, incorporating 18th-century black writers with direct experience of the slave trade, white writers whose birth in British colonies resulted in a similar sense of ambivalence, and products of the British Empire such as V.S. Naipaul.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

   Shakespeare called Othello "an extravagant and wheeling stranger/Of here and every where." In this exciting anthology, Caryl Phillips has collected writings by thirty-nine extravagant strangers: British writers who were born outside of Britain and see it with clear and critical eyes.  These eloquent and incisive voices prove that English literature, far from being pure or homogenous, has in fact been shaped and influenced by outsiders for over two hundred years.

   Here are slave writers, such as Ignatius Sancho, an eightieth century African who became a friend to Samuel Johnson and Laurence Sterne; writers born in the colonies such as Thackeray, Kipling, and Orwell; "subject writers," such as C.L.R. James and V.S. Naipaul; foreign émigrés, such as Joseph Conrad and Kazuo Ishiguro; and postcolonial observers of the British scene, such as Salman Rushdie, Ben Okri, and Anita Desai.  With the eloquent and often inspiring collection, Phillips proves, if proof be needed, that the greatest literature is often born out of irreconcilable tensions between a writer and his or her society.

Biographie de l'auteur

   Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies.  Brought up in England, he has written for television, radio, theater, and cinema.  He is the author of one book of nonfiction, The European Tribe, and six novels, The Final Passage, A State of Independence, Higher Ground, Cambridge, Crossing the River, and The Nature of Blood. His awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a James Tait Black Memorial Prize.  He divides his time between London and New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571190863
• ISBN 13: 9780571190867
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 356
• Éditeur: Phillips Caryl
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible