Ambiguous Visions of Home: The Paradoxes of Diasporic Belonging in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound
Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: s The Atlantic Sound "What is Home?" is a question that echoes virtually throughout the writing of Caryl Phillips, novelist, dramatist and essayist born in St. Kitts, brought up and educated in Britain, and now also a resident in the USA.As he himself puts it, "I don't think you need to be a rocket scientist to spot that I'm interested in the notion of 'home.'" 1 All his characters, both black and white, are indeed torn by a double sense of belonging and unbelonging, divided between a painful past and an unwelcoming present, unable to find a place they can definitely call "home."As early as 1981, in his first play Strange Fruit, Phillips seemed to speak through Alvin, a young man of Caribbean descent living in England, when he declared that "the most important part of knowing where you're going to is knowing where you've come from." 2 Alvin then went on to
Source: ORBi (University of Liège)
Author: Bénédicte Ledent
Institution: University of Liège
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W631593517