Extravagant Strangers - Softcover

Phillips, Caryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571192408 ISBN 13: 9780571192403

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Caryl Phillips was born in St Kitts, West Indies, in 1958. Brought up in England, he has written for television, radio, theatre and the screen.He is the author of numerous books of fiction and non-fiction, including The Final Passage, Higher Ground, Cambridge, Crossing the River (shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize), The Nature of Blood, A State of Independence, Atlantic Sound and The European Tribe. He is also the editor of Extravagant Strangers and The Right Set, an anthology of writing on tennis. His adaptation of The Final Passage was directed by Peter Hall and screened by Channel Four. His awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Since 1998 he has been Professor of English and Henry R. Luce Professor of Migration and Social Order at Barnard College, Columbia University. He divides his time between homes in

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0571192408
• ISBN 13: 9780571192403
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
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