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Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging

Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging

Phillips, Caryl

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 0679781544
ISBN13: 9780679781547
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Dec 29 1998
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.01
Language: English
Shakespeare called Othello an extravagant and wheeling stranger/Of here and every where. In this exciting anthology, Caryl Phillips has collected writings by thirty-nine extravagant strangers: British writers who were born outside of Britain and see it with clear and critical eyes. These eloquent and incisive voices prove that English literature, far from being pure or homogenous, has in fact been shaped and influenced by outsiders for over two hundred years.

Here are slave writers, such as Ignatius Sancho, an eighteenth-century African who became a friend to Samuel Johnson and Laurence Sterne; writers born in the colonies such as Thackeray, Kipling, and Orwell; subject writers, such as C.L.R. James and V.S. Naipaul; foreign émigrés, such as Joseph Conrad and Kazuo Ishiguro; and postcolonial observers of the British scene, such as Salman Rushdie, Ben Okri, and Anita Desai. With the eloquent and often inspiring collection, Phillips proves, if proof be needed, that the greatest literature is often born out of irreconcilable tensions between a writer and his or her society.

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