Between Conflicting Worlds: Female Exiles in Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark and Joan Riley's The Unbelonging

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African American and Caribbean Literatures in Belgium: So Close, Yet So Far Apart

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Thinking Caryl Phillips Out of the Box

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David Ellis, Writing Home: Black Writing in Britain Since the War

In the last decade, quite a few articles and several volumes have been written on the literature produced in the wake of the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks in 1948. What has been labelled “Black British” writing, for want of a better term, constitutes an important and original body of works that has not only changed the face of English literature, both thematically and formally, but has also chronicled the social and cultural transformations generated by post-war migration in..

African American and Caribbean Literatures in Belgium

It has not been easy to collect information on African American research conducted in Belgium since the 1960s. In our country there has not been an undertaking of a size and scope comparable to what Michel and Geneviève Fabre have achieved in France, perhaps because Belgium is divided linguistically, with two communities, one Dutch-speaking, the other French-speaking, each with separate funding bodies, a situation that does not make national research projects easy to implement. This being sai..

Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River and the Chorus of Archival Memory

Starting from the vocal nature of Crossing the River, this article looks at Caryl Phillips’s archives housed at the Beinecke Library and thereby attempts to retrieve the voices that did not make it into the book, but which are nonetheless important pieces in the writer’s imaginative universe. This article will refer to three thematically linked radio plays as well as an early draft of the third section of the 1993 novel