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A New World Order ranges widely across the Atlantic World that Caryl Phillips has charted in his award winning novels and non-fiction during the course of the past twenty years. He begins this collection by establishing his belief that there is a 'new world order' of cultural plurality, one which is being promoted by the increasingly central role of the migrant and the refugee in the modern world. He goes on to reflect on the work of such seminal figures as Derek Walcott, V. S. Naipaul, J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, Steven Spielberg, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Marvin Gaye. Phillips writes about the moment when St Kitts, the small island of his birth, became independent and talks about the role and responsibility of being a writer born into a postcolonial world who lives on both sides of the Atlantic. He then turns the spotlight on Britain speculating about his parents' migration in the late fifties, the continued legacy of racism, his own helpless loyalty to Leeds United, and his anxieties at feeling as though he both of, and not of, Britain.
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‘I was utterly beguiled by his original outlook on literature, life, race and "belonging" in this immensely readable collection of essays’ -- Spectator
‘Phillips’ writing, shot though through with sensuality and unexpected beauties, compels one to read on’ -- Daily Telegraph
‘Written with a passionate engagement' -- Sunday Times
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‘Phillips’ writing, shot though through with sensuality and unexpected beauties, compels one to read on’ -- Daily Telegraph
‘Written with a passionate engagement' -- Sunday Times
'In these essays, Phillips writes as an anthropologist, novelist, playwright and documentarist. His insight sparkles in every line as he lays bare his cultural upbringing' Independent
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0099428172
- ISBN 13 9780099428176
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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