Postcolonial routes and diasporic identities: Belonging and displacement in Caryl Phillips'sThe Final PassageandA Distant Shore
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2009
Yazarlar: Fatma Rezzan SİLKÜ
Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Uluslararası, Scopus, 2009, cilt 45, ss 163-170
DOI: 10.1080/17449850902819961
Özet
This article discusses Caryl Phillips's novels The Final Passage (1985 Phillips, Caryl. 1985. The Final Passage, London: Faber. [Google Scholar]) and A Distant Shore (2003 Phillips, Caryl. 2003. A Distant Shore, London: Secker. [Google Scholar]), with reference to the displacement and hybridity of the diasporic subject. In Phillips's concept of the “new world order” hegemonic borders are crossed through migration, enabling negotiation and interaction between different cultures. The study examines how Caryl Phillips's novels show his displaced characters in the imperial metropolis coming to redefine their identity in terms of their diasporic black British experience. In this way they contribute to the exploration of new routes in postcolonial studies.