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Colour Me English Book

Colour Me English What do we mean by 'English'? And 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? This title broadens into a reflective and challenging collection of essays and other non-fiction writing. Full descriptionRead More

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    What do we mean by 'English'? How does that image square with reality? And 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.

  • 1846553059
  • 9781846553059
  • Caryl Phillips
  • 11 August 2011
  • Harvill Secker
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
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