"Writing in the Key of Life "is the first critical collection
devoted to the British-Caribbean author Caryl Phillips, a major
voice in contemporary anglophone literatures. Phillips's impressive
body of fiction, drama, and non-fiction has garnered wide praise
for its formal inventiveness and its incisive social criticism as
well as its unusually sensitive understanding of the human
condition. The twenty-six contributions offered here, including two
by Phillips himself, address the fundamental issues that have
preoccupied the writer in his now three-decades-long career - the
enduring legacy of history, the intricate workings of identity, and
the pervasive role of race, class, and gender in societies
worldwide. Most of Phillips's writing is covered here, in essays
that approach it from various thematic and interpretative angles.
These include the interplay of fact and fiction, Phillips's
sometimes ambiguous literary affiliations, his long-standing
interest in the black and Jewish diasporas, his exploration of
Britain and its 'Others', and his recurrent use of motifs such as
masking and concealment. "Writing in the Key of Life "testifies to
the vitality of Phillipsian scholarship and confirms the
significance of an artist whose concerns, at once universal and
topical, find particular resonance with the state of the world at
the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors: Thomas
Bonnici, Fatim Boutros, Gordon Collier, Sandra Courtman, Stef
Craps, Alessandra Di Maio, Malik Ferdinand, Cindy Gabrielle, Lucie
Gillet, Dave Gunning, Tsunehiko Kato, Wendy Knepper, Benedicte
Ledent, John McLeod, Peter H. Marsden, Joan Miller Powell, Imen
Najar, Caryl Phillips, Renee Schatteman, Kirpal Singh, Petra
Tournay-Theodotou, Chika Unigwe, Itala Vivan, Abigail Ward, Louise
Yelin
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