“They are us”: Caryl Phillips’ A Distant Shore and the British transnation  

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Ellis, David

Jenis: Article from Article
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature vol. 48 no. 3 (Sep. 2013), page 411-423.
Topik: A Distant Shore; Caryl Phillips; national identity; post-racism; transnation
Fulltext: ''They are us''- Caryl Phillips' A Distant.pdf (572.49KB)

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This article discusses Caryl Phillips’ novel, A Distant Shore (2004), in the light of recent work by John McLeod and Bill Ashcroft’s notion of the transnation to describe a revised sense of the British nation within which new resemblances gesture towards the potential for a post-racial society. These ideas will be applied to Phillips’ sense of himself as occupying an ontological mid- Atlantic location in relation to recurring images and concerns to be found in his collected essays in A New World Order (2001) and Colour Me English (2011). The article does not argue that Phillips’ novel depicts the success of a post-racial transformation, but rather, one that shows the individual struggles through which such transformation may be possible.

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