Interprets three of Phillips’s novels, Final Passage, A State of Independence, and Higher Ground, and probes Phillips’ literary. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. Caryl Phillips won his first playwriting award in 1984. Read 12 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers.

In the final section of this ground-breaking collection he turns the spotlight on Britain and examines the country that formed and educated him.

Petersburg, Fla.Ĭopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. Download and Read Books in PDF 'Social And Personal Identity In Selected Novels In Relation To The Author Caryl Phillips' book is now available, Get the book in PDF, Epub and Mobi for Free. In Higher Ground, Caryl Phillips presents three characters separated by time and distance but united by the profound sympathy he has for their humanity. Serious fiction for larger libraries from the author of State of Independence ( LJ 6/15/86). Caryl Phillips Phillips calls these three novellas a novel, and they are so allied in feeling. While both interesting in concept and compelling, the book at times seems to be trying too hard, and the characters seem to lose their naturalness. they have called us nigger, then negro, then colored, and now black do you imagine they will ever call us Americans?' The final story involves a young Polish woman, a refugee from Nazi terror, now trapped in fear and loneliness in England. Indeed, one of the story's most telling moments occurs when he asks, '. In the second, a young black man in a Southern jail struggles to maintain his fierce pride and revolutionary fervor in the face of isolation and brutality. A novel in three parts, bound together with passion and sorrow, Higher Ground forms a haunting triptych of the dispossessed and the abandoned. In the first, an African adept at languages finds himself the toady of slavers, accepted neither in his world nor theirs. It is such situations that connect the three stories making up this work. Throughout history people have found themselves trapped in dehumanizing situations, their sense of personal dignity challenged.

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