Issues Of Identity Caribbean Immigrants Struggling In Britain In Caryl Phillips Play Strange Fruit

Author : Silvia Schilling
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783668847002

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Issues of Identity. Caribbean Immigrants Struggling in Britain in Caryl Phillips' Play "Strange Fruit" by Silvia Schilling Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Constance, course: Hauptseminar: “Criss-Crossing the Atlantic”: Caribbean Culture and Writing in Britain, language: English, abstract: This term paper analyses identity conflicts of the Caribbean immigrants struggling in Great Britain in Caryl Phillips ́ play "Strange Fruit". First, the term ́identity ́ is defined and the historical background concerning Caribbean immigration in Great Britain and Pan-Africanism is provided. Then, the identitiy issues of the play ́s immigrants are discussed. This discussion includes the first-generation immigrant Vivien Marshall as well as the second-generation immigrants Errol and Alvin, Vivien ́s two sons. Notions such as "playing white" and "playing black" as well as illusions and disillusionment are presented and analyzed in detail.

Author : Peter Childs,Michael Storry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781134755547

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Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture by Peter Childs,Michael Storry Pdf

Boasting more than 970 alphabetically-arranged entries, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture surveys British cultural practices and icons in the latter half of the twentieth century. It examines high and popular culture and encompasses both institutional and alternative aspects of British culture. It provides insight into the whole spectrum of British contemporary life. Topics covered include: architecture, pubs, film, internet and current takes on the monarchy. Cross-referencing and a thematic contents list enable readers to identify related articles. The entries range from short biographical synopses to longer overview essays on key issues. This Encyclopedia is essential reading for anyone interested in British culture. It also provides a cultural context for students of English, Modern History and Comparative European Studies.

Author : Frank Northen Magill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Authors
ISBN : UOM:39015045618520

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Cyclopedia of World Authors by Frank Northen Magill Pdf

Author : Scot Peacock
Publisher : Contemporary Authors New Revis
Page : 474 pages
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Release : 2002-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 078764613X

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Contemporary Authors by Scot Peacock Pdf

In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors® New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the world's most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors® entries. For your convenience, a soft-cover cumulative index is sent biannually.While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available due to rights restrictions.Call your Sales Rep for details.

Author : Tracey Watson
Publisher : Contemporary Authors New Revis
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0787678945

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Contemporary Authors by Tracey Watson Pdf

These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors entries. A softcover cumulative index is published twice per year (included in subscription).

Author : Caryl Phillips
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307488596

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The Nature of Blood by Caryl Phillips Pdf

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.

Author : Caryl Phillips
Publisher : Oberon Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1786827840

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Strange Fruit by Caryl Phillips Pdf

"I go half way round the world and back thinking I'd made some sort of discovery and come back to find the same damn lies, the same white lies, the same black lies." Alvin and Errol can't picture much of a future for themselves. They're young, Black and living in England in the 1980s, with an entire country and political system set against them. Instead they focus firmly on their past – the sunny Caribbean and heroic father they left behind when their mother brought them to England twenty years ago. But when Alvin returns home from his grandfather's funeral a new version of their past emerges, and the two brothers are caught in a desperate struggle to unearth the truth about their existence. Powerful and compelling, Strange Fruit by Caryl Phillips (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) is the story of a family caught between two cultures, and the uncrossable no man's land that can come between parents and their children.

Author : Caryl Phillips
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525562818

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The Final Passage by Caryl Phillips Pdf

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

Author : Carl Edmund Rollyson,Frank Northen Magill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:49015002937887

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Critical Survey of Drama: Giangiorgio Trissino - Arnold Zweig, Essays by Carl Edmund Rollyson,Frank Northen Magill Pdf

Combines, updates, and expands two earlier Salem Press reference sets: Critical survey of drama, Rev. ed., English language series, published in 1994, and Critical survey of drama, Foreign language series, published in 1986. This new 8 vol. set contains 602 essays, of which 538 discuss individual dramatists and 64 cover broad overview topics. The dramatist profiles contain more than 310 photographs and drawings.

Author : Caryl Phillips
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307273277

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In the Falling Snow by Caryl Phillips Pdf

From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another. Keith—born in England in the early 1960s to immigrant West Indian parents but primarily raised by his white stepmother—is a social worker heading a Race Equality unit in London whose life has come undone. He is separated from his wife of twenty years, kept at arm’s length by his teenage son, estranged from his father, and accused of harassment by a coworker. And beneath it all, he has a desperate feeling that his work—even in fact his life—is no longer relevant. Deeply moving in its portrayal of the vagaries of family love and bold in its scrutiny of the personal politics of race, this is Caryl Phillips’s most powerful novel yet.

Author : Ashley Dawson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472069918

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Mongrel Nation by Ashley Dawson Pdf

The first cultural history of African, Asian, and Caribbean immigrants to the United Kingdom from 1948 to the present

Author : Simon Schama
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0060539178

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Rough Crossings by Simon Schama Pdf

If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win? When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves fled from farms, plantations, and cities to try to reach the British camp. A military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in U.S. history. With powerfully vivid storytelling, Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture, shedding light on an extraordinary, little-known chapter in the dark saga of American slavery.

Author : Caryl Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
ISBN : 0571196799

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A State of Independence by Caryl Phillips Pdf

Bertram Francis is a British West Indian who has spent the last twenty years away from the Caribbean. Now Independence is looming and he is going back to see the end of colonial rule. But the visit is not the nostalgic homecoming he expected and he finds himself an outsider in a place he thought was home. 'Caryl Phillips has proved himself among the best and most productive writers of his generation.' New York Times

Author : Caryl Phillips
Publisher : Random House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409016946

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Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips Pdf

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Caryl Phillips’ ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War. ‘Epic and frequently astonishing’ The Times ‘Its resonance continues to deepen’ New York Times

Author : Tahmima Anam
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857862754

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A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam Pdf

Spring, 1971, East Pakistan. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for her beloved children, Sohail and Maya. Her young family is growing up fast, and Rehana wants to remember this day forever. But out on the hot city streets, something violent is brewing. As the civil war develops, a war which will eventually see the birth of Bangladesh, Rehana struggles to keep her children safe and finds herself facing a heartbreaking dilemma.