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19 mai 2021
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Legends and stories Novels Stories Novels Fiction--Plots Dramatic plots Drama--Plot Scenarios Novels Novellas (Short novels) Fiction--Philosophy Metafiction Stories Crop plants Farm crops Industrial crops Agricultural crops Childhood Youngsters Pedology (Child study) Kids (Children) Marriage, Promise of Engagement WritersCiter ce document
Kathie Birat, « Caryl Phillips: Introduction », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10.4000/ces.4433
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“A desperate foolishness. The crops failed. I sold my children.” With these three short sentences, the opening lines of his fifth novel, Crossing the River, Caryl Phillips undertook an imaginative and intellectual journey that would involve an active engagement with a subject which had become a crucial and difficult one for writers on both sides of the Atlantic – the legacy of the slave trade. When he published the novel in 1993 he had already written four other novels focusing on the effects...