Migration and Multiplicity of Belonging in Caryl Phillips

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The themes of identity, belonging and its reverse, exclusion, have always been central to Caryl Phillips’ works of non-fiction and fiction. In particular, some essays published in two collections, A New World Order (2001) and Colour Me English (2011), and the novel A Distant Shore (2003) investigate to which extent refugees and immigrants are redesigning a new order in the modern globalised world and new notions of belonging and identification based on cultural plurality. In my article I will show the evolution of Phillips’ view on these topics in the first decade of the new millennium, with particular refer- ence to the above-mentioned texts. DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-96 Bibliography Ashcroft, Bill. 2010a. Transnation. Janet Wilson, Cristina Sandru & Sarah Lawson Welsh eds. Rerouting the Postcolonial. New Directions for the New Millennium . London-New York: Routledge, 72-85. Ashcroft, Bill. 2010b. Globalization, Transnation and Utopia. W. Goebel & S. Schabio eds. Locatin g Transnational Ideals . New York: Routledge, 13-19. Ashcroft, Bill, 2017. Transnation and the Postcolonial City. Australian Humanities Review , 62 (November): 46-64. Dabydeen, David & Nana Wilson-Tagoe. 1988. A Reader’s Guide to West Indian and Black British Literature . London: Hansib Publishing. Ellis, David. 2013. “They are us”: Caryl Phillips’ A Distant Shore and the British Transnation. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , 48, 3: 411-423. Gilroy, Paul. 1993. The Black Atlantic . London-New York: Verso. Gunning, Dave. 2011. Infrahuman Rights, Silence, and the Possibility of Communication in Recent Narratives of Illegality in Britain. Annalisa Oboe & Shaul Bassi eds. Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures . London & New York: Routledge, 141-150. Hall, Stuart. 1997. Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities. Anthony D. King ed. Culture , Globalisation and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 41-68. McLeod, John. 2008. Diaspora and Utopia: Reading the Recent Work of Paul Gilroy and Caryl Phillips. Mark Shacklenton ed. Diasporic Literature and Theory – Where now? Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2-17. Mellino, Miguel. 2003. L’Atlantico nero, ovvero viaggio nell’anti-anti-essenzialismo di Paul Gilroy. Paul Gilroy. The Black Atlantic: L’identita nera tra modernita e doppia coscienza . Roma: Meltemi, 7-15. Phillips, Caryl. 2001. A New World Order . London: Secker & Warburg. Phillips, Caryl. 2003. A Distant Shore . London: Secker & Warburg. Phillips, Caryl. 2011. Colour Me English . London: Harvill Secker. Sarangi, Jaydeep & Patrycja Austin. 2014. Rethinking Postcolonialis: An Interview with Bill Ashcroft. Studia Anglica Resoviensia 11, 85: 131-137. Ward, Abigail. 2012. An Interview with Caryl Phillips. Contemporary Literature , 53, 4: 628-645. http://www.carylphillips.com/ (consulted on 7/9/2018). 2014 International Festival of Literature “Incroci di Civilta”: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=MqYnsoUs71s (consulted on 7/9/2018).