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Extravagant Strangers

von Caryl Phillips

Literature Anthology Cultural Studies History

ISBN

0679781544

Verlag

National Geographic Books

Erschienen

29.12.1998

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Anthology British Literature Multicultural Postcolonial Immigrant Writers Literary Criticism Cultural Diversity Outsider Perspective English Literature Historical Influence Slave Narratives Colonialism Emigré Writers Identity Society and Culture Literary History Global Voices Diverse Authors Literary Anthology Cross-Cultural 20th Century Literature 19th Century Literature 18th Century Literature Literary Tensions Cultural Critique British Society Diaspora Ethnic Literature Global Influence Literary Collection

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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 eightieth 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.