Caryl Phillips's genealogies / edited by Delphine Munos, Evelyn O'Callaghan and Mathilde Mergeai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Munos, Delphine, editor.

O'Callaghan, Evelyn, editor.

Mergeai, Mathilde, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English, 0924-1426 ; volume 220

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phillips, Caryl--Criticism and interpretation.

Phillips, Caryl.

Phillips, Caryl--Influences.

Saint Kittian and Nevisian literature--History and criticism.

Saint Kittian and Nevisian literature.

Genealogy in literature.

Physical Description:

xviii, 265 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"Thematically and structurally, the work of the Kittitian-British writer Caryl Phillips reimagines the notion of genealogy. Phillips's fiction, drama, and non-fiction foreground broken filiations and forever-deferred promises of new affiliations in the aftermath of slavery and colonization. His texts are also in dialogue with multiple historical figures and literary influences, imagining around the life of the African American comedian Bert Williams and the Caribbean writer Jean Rhys, or retelling the story of Othello. Additionally, Phillips's work resonates with that of other writers and visual artists, such as Derek Walcott, Toni Morrison, or Isaac Julien. Written to honor the career of renown Phillipsian scholar Bénédicte Ledent, the contributions to this volume, including one by Phillips himself, explore the multiple ramifications of genealogy, across and beyond Phillips's work"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Reading 'Caz' through, and with, 'Béné' / Delphine Munos and Evelyn O'Callaghan

The space of crossing : Caryl Phillips, Jenny Erpenbeck, and parallel genealogy / Stephen Clingman

"My foolish voice" : voice and alterity in the fiction of Caryl Phillips and Russell Banks / Kathie Birat

Dialogues with history : an existentialist reading of Caryl Phillips's Rough crossings / Kerry-Jane Wallart

A genealogy of the recognition of Blackness in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge and foreigners : three English lives / Malica S. Willie

Autogenealogies : Caryl Phillips, Isaac Julien, and the invention of self / Louise Yelin

Translating Caryl Phillips : downriver genealogies / Christine Pagnoulle

European vs. African gendered genealogies : revisiting Othello in Caryl Phillips's The nature of blood and Toni Morrison's Desdemona / Pilar Cuder-Domínguez

Putting his words in her mouth? : Caryl Phillips's women characters / Evelyn O'Callaghan

Cross-sexing the river and messing with order : a queer reading of Caryl Phillips's In the falling snow / Bastien Bomans

A Caribbean voice : the radio's legacy in Caryl Phillips's work / Carine Mardorossian

Formal innovation and cinematic imagination in Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the dark / Su Ping

The gentle strength of literary appreciation : critical attention in Bénédicte Ledent's readings of Caryl Phillips / Alison Donnell

Luminary of the Liège legacy : a eULogy4.béné / Peter H. Marsden

A bulwark against intolerance and hospitality as praxis : a few scattered notes on Caryl Phillips and Bénédicte Ledent / Maria Cristina Fumagalli

A view of the empress at sunset : a (not-so-cheeky) tribute to Bénédicte Ledent / Marie Herbillon

A letter to Béné / Marc Delrez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Caryl Phillips's genealogies

ISBN:

9789004545540

9004545549

OCLC:

1395539157