Shakespeare called Othello "an extravagant and wheeling strangerOf here and every where." In this exciting anthology, 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 eloquent and incisive 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.
CONTENTS:
Editor's Note Preface
The Shortcomings of Christian England (1770) Ukawasaw Gronniosaw Letter to Mr. Sterne (1776) Ignatius Sancho Voyage to England (1789) Olaudah Equiano A Word about Dinners (1846) William Thackeray From The Nigger of 'Narcissus' (1897) Joseph Conrad The English Flag (1891) Rudyard Kipling Letter to David Kahma (1947); Letter to Edgar Preston Richardson (1948); Letter to Geoffrey Stone (1948) Wyndham Lewis Letter to Henry Eliot (1914); Letter to Eleanor Hinkley (1914) T.S. Eliot The Tiredness of Rosabel (1924) Katherine Mansfield First Steps (1979) Jean Rhys Bloomsbury: An Encounter with Edith Sitwell (1932) C.L.R. James Confessions of a Down and Out (1933) George Orwell From Choice of Straws (1965) E.R. Braithwaite London at Night (1969) Lawrence Durrell In Defence of the Underground (1987) Doris Lessing From The Angel at the Gate (1982) Wilson Harris From The Lonely Londoners (1956) Samuel Selvon 'From Lucy: Englan' Lady (1982); 'From Lucy: Carnival Wedd'n', 1981 (1982) James Berry From Three Continents (1987) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala A Voyage (1954) George Lamming An Ingrate's England (1989) Peter Porter First Impressions of London (1993) J.G. Ballard From Little Eden: A Child at War (1978) Eva Figes The Journey (1987) V.S. Naipaul From Oleander, Jacaranda (1994) Penelope Lively From Bye-Bye, Blackbird (1971) Anita Desai From Darkest England (1996) Christopher Hope Living in Earl's Court (1984) Shiva Naipaul A General Election (1983) Salman Rushdie From Pilgrim's Way (1988) Abdulrazak Gurnah The Child I Never Was (1986); Assassins (1983) George Szirtes From Sour Sweet (1982) Timothy Mo Fly Away Home (1997) William Boyd Inglan is a Bitch (1980) Linton Kwesi Johnson From Reef (1994) Romesh Gunesekera From The Remains of the Day (1989) Kazuo Ishiguro London Taxi Driver (1988) David Dabydeen The Machine That Cried (1986) Michael Hoffman Disparities (1986) Ben Okri
Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and brought up in England. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. His novel Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, and an earlier novel, A Distant Shore, won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently lives in New York.
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Shakespeare called Othello "an extravagant and wheeling strangerOf here and every where." In this exciting anthology, 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 eloquent and incisive 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.
CONTENTS:
Editor's Note Preface
The Shortcomings of Christian England (1770) Ukawasaw Gronniosaw Letter to Mr. Sterne (1776) Ignatius Sancho Voyage to England (1789) Olaudah Equiano A Word about Dinners (1846) William Thackeray From The Nigger of 'Narcissus' (1897) Joseph Conrad The English Flag (1891) Rudyard Kipling Letter to David Kahma (1947); Letter to Edgar Preston Richardson (1948); Letter to Geoffrey Stone (1948) Wyndham Lewis Letter to Henry Eliot (1914); Letter to Eleanor Hinkley (1914) T.S. Eliot The Tiredness of Rosabel (1924) Katherine Mansfield First Steps (1979) Jean Rhys Bloomsbury: An Encounter with Edith Sitwell (1932) C.L.R. James Confessions of a Down and Out (1933) George Orwell From Choice of Straws (1965) E.R. Braithwaite London at Night (1969) Lawrence Durrell In Defence of the Underground (1987) Doris Lessing From The Angel at the Gate (1982) Wilson Harris From The Lonely Londoners (1956) Samuel Selvon 'From Lucy: Englan' Lady (1982); 'From Lucy: Carnival Wedd'n', 1981 (1982) James Berry From Three Continents (1987) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala A Voyage (1954) George Lamming An Ingrate's England (1989) Peter Porter First Impressions of London (1993) J.G. Ballard From Little Eden: A Child at War (1978) Eva Figes The Journey (1987) V.S. Naipaul From Oleander, Jacaranda (1994) Penelope Lively From Bye-Bye, Blackbird (1971) Anita Desai From Darkest England (1996) Christopher Hope Living in Earl's Court (1984) Shiva Naipaul A General Election (1983) Salman Rushdie From Pilgrim's Way (1988) Abdulrazak Gurnah The Child I Never Was (1986); Assassins (1983) George Szirtes From Sour Sweet (1982) Timothy Mo Fly Away Home (1997) William Boyd Inglan is a Bitch (1980) Linton Kwesi Johnson From Reef (1994) Romesh Gunesekera From The Remains of the Day (1989) Kazuo Ishiguro London Taxi Driver (1988) David Dabydeen The Machine That Cried (1986) Michael Hoffman Disparities (1986) Ben Okri
Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and brought up in England. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. His novel Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, and an earlier novel, A Distant Shore, won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently lives in New York.
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