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Extravagant Strangers - A Literature of Belonging (Paperback, A Vintage International original, 1st ed) Loot Price: R461

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Extravagant Strangers - A Literature of Belonging (Paperback, A Vintage International original, 1st ed): Caryl Phillips

Extravagant Strangers - A Literature of Belonging (Paperback, A Vintage International original, 1st ed)

Caryl Phillips

Series: Vintage International

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Extravagant Strangers is renowned author Caryl Phillips's very personal response to the popular idea that "outsiders" in Britain are currently reinvigorating the literary canon. Phillips shows that in fact English literature has never been homogenous: it has been shaped and influenced by outsiders for at least two hundred years.

Included in Extravagant Strangers are slave writers, such as Olaudah Equiano and Ignatius Sancho; Britons born in the colonies, such as Thackeray, Kipling, and Orwell; "subject writers", such as C.L.R. James and V. S. Naipaul; and "postcolonial" observers of Britain, such as Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Timothy Mo, and Anita Desai. With this eloquent and often inspiring collection, Caryl 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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Imprint:	Random House
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Vintage International
Release date:	December 1998
First published:	December 1998
Authors:	Caryl Phillips
Dimensions:	203 x 132 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	336
Edition:	A Vintage International original, 1st ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-78154-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-679-78154-4
Barcode:	9780679781547