Color me English : migration and belonging before and after 9/11 / Caryl Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Caryl, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phillips, Caryl.

Authors, English--21st century--Biography.

Authors, English.

West Indians--Great Britain--Biography.

West Indians.

West Indians--United States--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

[Place of distribution not identified] : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, [date of distribution not identified]

Place of Publication:

2011.

New York, New York : The New Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Born in St. Kitts and brought up in the UK, bestselling author Caryl Phillips has written about and explored the experience of migration for more than thirty years through his spellbinding and award-winning novels, plays, and essays.Now, in a magnificent and beautifully written new book, Phillips reflects on the shifting notions of race, culture, and belonging before and after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.Color Me English opens with an inspired story from his boyhood, a poignant account of a shared sense of isolation he felt with the first Musl

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Introduction; Color Me English; Homeland Security; Ground Zero (2001); American Tribalism (2003); 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses' (2003); American Stories, American Silence (2006); American Dispatches; Colored People (1995); Men at Sea: African American Sailors (1997); Literature: The New Jazz? (1997); Warren Beatty's Bulworth (1998); 'O': All alone in Charleston (2001); Luther Vandross (1951-2005) (2005); Strange Fruit (2007); Growing Pains; A Life in Ten Chapters (2005); 1978 (1993); Northern Soul (2005); Necessary Journeys (2004)

'Rude am I in my speech' (2008)Overtures; E.R. Braithwaite (2005); John La Rose (2007); Claude McKay (2008); Beginners; Water (1993); Blood (1997); Fire (2000); Outside In; Belongings to Israel (2002); Chinua Achebe: Out of Africa (2003); Shusaku Endo: Confessions of a True Believer (2003); England, Half English (2004); The Pleasures of Exile (2005); A Familial Conversation (2006); James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (2007); Ha Jin: Exile on Main Street (2008); Lafcadio Hearn: The Wanderer (2009); Distant Shores; France: Strangers in a Strange Land (2001)

Sierra Leone: Distant Voices (2003)Ghana: Border Crossings (2004); Belgium: The Silenced Minority (2004); Kilimanjaro: The Height of Obsession (2005); Sierra Leone: Bunce Island (2007)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613788894

9781281637888

1281637882

9781595586902

1595586903

OCLC:

771083279