Migration and Multiplicity of Belonging in Caryl Phillips

Abstract

The themes of identity, belonging and its reverse, exclusion, have always been central to Caryl Phillips’ works of non-fiction and fiction. In particular, some essays published in two collections, A New World Order (2001) and Colour Me English (2011), and the novel A Distant Shore (2003) investigate to which extent refugees and immigrants are redesigning a new order in the modern globalised world and new notions of belonging and identification based on cultural plurality. In my article I will show the evolution of Phillips’ view on these topics in the first decade of the new millennium, with particular reference to the above-mentioned texts.

DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-96

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