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History and Race in Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood

Author : Maria Festa
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838214331
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book History and Race in Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood written by Maria Festa and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood (1997), a novel exploring recurring expressions of exclusion and discrimination throughout history with particular focus on Jewish and African diasporas and the storytelling of its migrant characters. Particular attention is given to the analysis of characters revealing different facets of the Jewish question. Maria Festa also provides a historical excursus on the notion of race and considers another character alluding to Shakespeare’s Othello to expose the paradoxes of the relationship between subjugator and subjugated. The study makes the case that among the novel’s most remarkable achievements is Phillips’s effort to redress the absence of the Other from our history, that by depicting experiences of displacement, and by confronting readers with seemingly disconnected narrative fragments, The Nature of Blood is a reminder of the missing stories, the voices—marginalised and often racialized—that Western history has consistently failed to include in its accounts of the past and arguably its present.

The Nature of Blood

Author : Caryl Phillips
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307488594
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Blood written by Caryl Phillips and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A German Jewish girl whose life is destroyed by the atrocities of World War II . . . her uncle, who undermines the sureties of his own life in order to fight for Israeli statehood . . . the Jews of a 15th-century Italian ghetto . . Othello, newly arrived in Venice . . . a young Ethiopian Jewish woman resettled in Israel. These are the extraordinary people who inhabit Caryl Phillips' eloquent and moving new novel, and whose stories are connected by circumstance, spirit, and blood across the centuries.

The Rhetoric of Women’s Humour in Barbara Pym’s Fiction

Author : Naghmeh Varghaiyan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838215036
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Women’s Humour in Barbara Pym’s Fiction written by Naghmeh Varghaiyan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of three of Barbara Pym’s novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of women’s humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, and others, shows how the humorous female discourse in Some Tame Gazelle, Excellent Women, and Jane and Prudence undermines patriarchal culture and subverts both female and male stereotypes such as that of the spinster and of the Byronic hero. Varghaiyan reveals how the rhetoric of women’s humour enables Pym’s female characters to survive in the patriarchal culture and to unsettle it.

Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature

Author : Dave Gunning
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 184631853X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)

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Book Synopsis Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature by : Dave Gunning

Download or read book Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature written by Dave Gunning and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature offers the first comprehensive exploration of the cultural impact of the politics of race and antiracism in recent novels by black British and British Asian writers. It examines works by Zadie Smith, Caryl Phillips, Nadeem Aslam, Ferdinand Dennis, and others, arguing that an understanding of how race and ethnicity function in contemporary Britain can only be gained through attention to antiracism and the ways it conditions racial categories, identities, and models of behavior. Looking at topics such as the role of Africa, the reception of Islam, and the meaning of multiculturalism, Dave Gunning offers a detailed engagement with the nuances of antiracism and their effects on British literature and culture.

The Reeducation of Race

Author : Sonali Thakkar
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503637344
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Reeducation of Race written by Sonali Thakkar and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse. In the postwar period, racism was situated for the first time at the center of international political life, and race's status as conceptual common sense and a justification for colonial rule was challenged with new intensity. In response to this crisis of race, the UN and UNESCO initiated a project of racial reeducation. This global antiracist campaign was framed by the persecution of Europe's Jews and anchored by UNESCO's epochal 1950 Statement on Race, which redefined the race concept and canonized the midcentury liberal antiracist consensus that continues to shape our present. In this book, Sonali Thakkar tells the story of how UNESCO's race project directly influenced anticolonial thought and made Jewish difference and the Holocaust enduring preoccupations for anticolonial and postcolonial writers. Drawing on UNESCO's rich archival resources and shifting between the scientific, social scientific, literary, and cultural, Thakkar offers new readings of a varied collection of texts from the postcolonial, Jewish, and Black diasporic traditions. Anticolonial thought and postcolonial literature critically recast liberal scientific antiracism, Thakkar argues, and the concepts central to this new moral economy were the medium for postcolonialism's engagement with Jewishness. By recovering these connections, she shows how the midcentury crisis of racial meaning shaped the kinds of solidarities between racialized subjects that are thinkable today.

Holocaust Literature: Lerner to Zychlinsky, index

Author : S. Lillian Kremer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415929844
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Literature: Lerner to Zychlinsky, index written by S. Lillian Kremer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "This encyclopedia offers an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the important writers and works that form the literature about the Holocaust and its consequences. The collection is alphabetically arranged and consists of high-quality biocritical essays on 309 writers who are first-, second-, and third-generation survivors or important thinkers and spokespersons on the Holocaust. An essential literary reference work, this publication is an important addition to the genre and a solid value for public and academic libraries."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004

Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction

Author : Barbara L. Estrin
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1611493706
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction written by Barbara L. Estrin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first book to use fiction as theory, Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction reads backward to demonstrate how recent novelists redeploy foundling and lyric plots to uncover a Shakespeare who similarly challenges the mythological homogeneity that scripts us.

Narrative Projections of a Black British History

Author : Eva Ulrike Pirker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136682716
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Projections of a Black British History written by Eva Ulrike Pirker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-1990s, the black experience in Britain has begun to be (re)negotiated intensely, with a strong focus on history. Narrative Projections of a Black British History considers narratives that construct, or engage with, aspects of a black British history. Part I poses the question of what sort of narratives have emerged from, and in turn determine, key events (such as the iconic 'Windrush' moment) and developments and provides basic insights into theoretical frameworks. It also offers a large number of comparative readings, considering both 'factual' and 'fictional' forms of representation such as history books, documentary films, life writing, novels, and drama, and identifies main strands, 'official' narratives and countercurrents. Part II embarks on close readings and analyses of a selection of narratives that can be classed as reactions to the 'established' historical culture. Overall, the book draws attention to collective currents and individual positions, affirmative and critical approaches: Together, they form a representative image of a specific moment in the ongoing debate about a black British history.

Under Postcolonial Eyes

Author : Efraim Sicher
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803245300
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Under Postcolonial Eyes written by Efraim Sicher and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Western literary tradition, the "jew" has long been a figure of ethnic exclusion and social isolation--the wanderer, the scapegoat, the alien. But it is no longer clear where a perennial outsider belongs. This provocative study of contemporary British writing points to the figure of the "jew" as the litmus test of multicultural society. Efraim Sicher and Linda Weinhouse examine the "jew" as a cultural construction distinct from the "Jewishness" of literary characters in novels by, among others, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Doris Lessing, Monica Ali, Caryl Philips, and Zadie Smith, as well as contemporary art and film. Here the image of the "jew" emerges in all its ambivalence, from postcolonial migrant and modern everyman to more traditional representations of the conspirator and malefactor. The multicultural discourses of ethnic and racial hybridity reflect dissolution of national and personal identities, yet the search for transnational, cultural forms conceals both the acceptance of marginal South Asian, Caribbean, and Jewish voices as well as the danger of resurgent antisemitic tropes. Innovative in its contextualization of the "jew" in the multiculturalism debate in contemporary Britain, Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the "jew" in Contemporary British Writing analyzes the narrative of identities in a globalized culture and offers new interpretations of postmodern classics.

Connecting Histories

Author : Gemma Romain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136220704
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Connecting Histories written by Gemma Romain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006. The dynamics of ethnicity, diaspora, identity and community are the defining features of contemporary life, giving rise to important and exciting new interdisciplinary fields of study and literature on subjects that were previously seen as the exclusive domain of the social sciences. Connecting Histories is an important contribution to this trend. While using sociological and anthropological theories, its is an innovative historical and comparative assessment of ethnic identities and memories. Romain focuses on Afro-Caribbean and Jewish individuals and groups, investigating the ways in which 'communities' remember their experiences.

Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers

Author : Jean Wyatt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429581351
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers written by Jean Wyatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary African American and Black British Women Writers: Narrative, Race, Ethics brings together British and American scholars to explore how, in texts by contemporary black women writers in the U. S. and Britain, formal narrative techniques express new understandings of race or stimulate ethical thinking about race in a reader. Taken together, the essays also demonstrate that black women writers from both sides of the Atlantic borrow formal structures and literary techniques from one another to describe the workings of structural racism in the daily lives of black subjects and to provoke readers to think anew about race. Narratology has only recently begun to use race as a category of narrative theory. This collection seeks both to show the ethical effects of narrative form on individual readers and to foster reconceptualizations of narrative theory that account for the workings of race within literature and culture.

Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction

Author : Sara Upstone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317914805
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Race and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction written by Sara Upstone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a post-racial approach to the representation of race in contemporary British fiction, re-imagining studies of race and British literature away from concerns with specific racial groups towards a more sophisticated analysis of the contribution of a broad, post-racial British writing. Examining the work of writers from a wide range of diverse racial backgrounds, the book illustrates how contemporary British fiction, rather than merely reflecting social norms, is making a radical contribution towards the possible future of a positively multi-ethnic and post-racial Britain. This is developed by a strategic use of the realist form, which becomes a utopian device as it provides readers with a reality beyond current circumstances, yet one which is rooted within an identifiable world. Speaking to the specific contexts of British cultural politics, and directly connecting with contemporary debates surrounding race and identity in Britain, the author engages with a wide range of both mainstream and neglected authors, including Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Julian Barnes, John Lanchester, Alan Hollinghurst, Martin Amis, Jon McGregor, Andrea Levy, Bernardine Evaristo, Hanif Kureishi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hari Kunzru, Nadeem Aslam, Meera Syal, Jackie Kay, Maggie Gee, and Neil Gaiman. This cutting-edge volume explores how contemporary fiction is at the centre of re-thinking how we engage with the question of race in twenty-first-century Britain.

The Oxford Companion to English Literature

Author : Dinah Birch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192806874
Total Pages : 1184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to English Literature written by Dinah Birch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a team of more than 150 contributors working under the direction of Dinah Birch, and ranging in influence from Homer to the Mahabharata, this guide provides the reader with a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English literature.

Conversations with Caryl Phillips

Author : Caryl Phillips
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604732092
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Caryl Phillips written by Caryl Phillips and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with the acclaimed Anglo-Caribbean author of Dancing in the Dark, A Distant Shore, and Foreigners

On the Road to Baghdad, Or, Traveling Biculturalism

Author : Gönül Pultar
Publisher : New Academia Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780976704218
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book On the Road to Baghdad, Or, Traveling Biculturalism written by Gönül Pultar and published by New Academia Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book This is a collection of essays on fiction written in English, Spanish, and Bengali that has emerged recently. This fiction is seen to reflect biculturalism, that is the amalgam of two cultures that are both hegemonic in their own ways. This approach provides insight into the works discussed by uncovering elements of the the seemingly "other," non-Euroculture, and elevates both cultures to the same level. Authors discussed in the essays include: Black British Caryl Phillips, Chicana Sandra Cisneros, Chinese American Maxine Hong Kingston, Cuban American Dolores Prida, Danish Izak Dinesen, Greek Americans Nikos Papandreou and Catherine Temma Davidson, Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Japanese American John Okada, New Zealander Patricia Grace, Peruvian José Maria Arguedas, Turkish American Güneli Gün, and contemporary English-language Indian authors Vikram Chandra, Chitra B. Divakaruni, Attia Hosain, Manju Kapur, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, as well as Rabindranath Tagore. Praise "Perhaps only a decade ago, such an ambitious, world-spanning project would have seemed absurd outside a congress of anthropologists or bankers. Today, it represents a state-of-the-art sensibility reflecting the efforts of an equally vari- ous geocultural assembly of scholars. The implications for a community of readers not only interested in but competently sensitive to such far-flung narrative geographies is equally stunning." - William Boelhower, University of Padua. Italy. Author of Through a Glass Darkly, Ethnic Semiosis in American Literature.

The European Tribe

Author : Caryl Phillips
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 052556280X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The European Tribe written by Caryl Phillips and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly descriptive and haunting narrative, Caryl Phillips chronicles a journey through modern-day Europe, his quest guided by a moral compass rather than a map. Seeking personal definition within the parameters of growing up black in Europe, he discovers that the natural loneliness and confusion inherent in long jorneys collides with the bigotry of the "European Tribe"-a global community of whites caught up in an unyielding, Eurocentric history. Phillips deftly illustrates the scenes and characters he encounters, from Casablanca and Costa del Sol to Venice, Amsterdam, Oslo, and Moscow. He ultimately discovers that "Europe is blinded by her past, and does not understand the high price of her churches, art galleries, and history as the prison from which Europeans speak." In the afterword to the Vintage edition, Phillips revisits the Europe he knew as a young man and offers fresh observations.

The Final Passage

Author : Caryl Phillips
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525562818
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Final Passage written by Caryl Phillips and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the British-West Indian novelist who is rapidly emerging as the bard of the African diaspora comes a haunting work about “the final passage”—the exodus of black West Indians from their impoverished islands to the uncertain opportunities of England. In her village of St. Patrick’s, Leila Preston has no prospects, a young son, and a husband, Michael, who seems to prefer the company of his mistress. So when her ailing mother travels to England for medical care, Leila decides to follow her. As Caryl Phillips follows the Prestons’ outward voyage—and their bewildered attempt to find a home in a country whose rooming houses post signs announcing “No vacancies for coloureds”—he produces a tragicomic portrait of hope and dislocation. The Final Passage is a novel rich in language, acute in its grasp of character, and unforgettable in its vision of the colonial legacy. “Like Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Márquez, Phillips writes of times so heady and chaotic and of characters so compelling that time moves as if guided by the moon and dreams.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review