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Beschreibung
What do we mean by 'English'? How does that image square with reality? How does our island look from abroad and what aspects of our experience do we share with for example America - a nation built by outsiders and the huddled masses?

Taking as its starting point a moving recollection of growing up in Leeds during the 1970s Colour Me English broadens into a reflective entertaining and challenging collection of essays and other non-fiction writing which ranges from the literary to the cultural and autobiographical.

Elsewhere Caryl Phillips goes on to describe the experience of living and working in America and travels in Sierra Leone Ghana Belgium and France and beyond. He considers the lives and works of many figures including Chinua Achebe James Baldwin Billie Holiday and Luther Vandross and how their experiences are refracted through the prisms of writing music and cinema.

But Colour Me English always circles back to questions of identity and belonging to the nature of tribal belonging and of its reverse exclusion.
What do we mean by 'English'? How does that image square with reality? How does our island look from abroad and what aspects of our experience do we share with for example America - a nation built by outsiders and the huddled masses?

Taking as its starting point a moving recollection of growing up in Leeds during the 1970s Colour Me English broadens into a reflective entertaining and challenging collection of essays and other non-fiction writing which ranges from the literary to the cultural and autobiographical.

Elsewhere Caryl Phillips goes on to describe the experience of living and working in America and travels in Sierra Leone Ghana Belgium and France and beyond. He considers the lives and works of many figures including Chinua Achebe James Baldwin Billie Holiday and Luther Vandross and how their experiences are refracted through the prisms of writing music and cinema.

But Colour Me English always circles back to questions of identity and belonging to the nature of tribal belonging and of its reverse exclusion.
Über den Autor
Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction, including the novels Crossing the River (shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1993) and A Distant Shore (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2004). Phillips has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN Open Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Granta Best of Young British Writers 1993. He has also written for television, radio, theatre and film.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781911215776
ISBN-10: 1911215779
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Phillips, Caryl
Hersteller: Harvill Secker
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 135 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Caryl Phillips
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.06.2017
Gewicht: 0,479 kg
Artikel-ID: 133721443