Extravagant strangers
Subtitle: a literature of belonging
By: edited by Caryl Phillips.
Contributors: Phillips, Caryl.
Edition: A Vintage International original, 1st ed.
Publisher: Vintage International
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: English literature -- Minority authors.; Ethnic groups -- Literary collections.; Immigrants -- Literary collections.; Minorities -- Literary collections.; Immigrants' writings, English.; Commonwealth countries -- Emigration and immigration -- Literary collections.; Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- Literary collections.
Description: Caryl Phillips has collected writings by thirty-nine extravagant strangers: British writers who were born outside of Britain and see it with clear and critical eyes. These voices prove that English literature, far from being pure or homogenous, has in fact been shaped and influenced by outsiders for over two hundred years. The greatest literature is often born out of irreconcilable tensions between a writer and his or her society.
Notes: Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 1997.
Includes index.