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A New World Tribe in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore

2012

Africa and EuropeRefugeeCaryl PhillipPost-Imperial EnglandBlack British literatureNational identitySettore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura IngleseMigrationMulticulturalism
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'Sinking Hopeful Roots into Difficult Soil': Caryl Phillips' Crossing the River.

1998

This article proposes a reading of Caryl Phillips Booker-shortlisted novel Crossing the River as an exemplary text of the African Diaspora.

Caryl Phillips. Crossing the River. The African Diaspora. The slave-trade. Caribbean literature. Black British literature. Modern history. The Black Atlantic. Postmodernism.Settore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura Inglese
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Questioning the Canon and Re-Writing/Re-Righting the Female Colonized Subject: Mary Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures and George Bernard Shaw’s The Adve…

2021

Albeit different in terms of formal solutions and conception, Mary Seacole’s 'Wonderful Adventures' (1857) and G.B. Shaw’s 'The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God' (1932) share an oppositional aesthetics which, in both cases, helps undermine any prevailing representation of the colonial Other. Indeed, Seacole’s and Shaw’s works manipulate the trope of travel in such a way as to overcome traditional conceptions of the literary canon as well as hegemonic visions of subjectivities. In taking into consideration the innovative representation of the Black colonized woman as delineated in both works, the essay aims to show the way in which they present an anti-normative identity mo…

Settore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura IngleseGender Studies Black British Cultural Studies Black British Literature Mary Seacole G.B. Shaw
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