Caryl Phillips and the Heroic

• Ulla Rahbek ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Copenhagen

     University of Copenhagen

     Dinamarca

     
• Localización: Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, ISSN 0004-1327, ISSN-e 1920-1222, Vol. 48, Nº. 3-4, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: special issue on Caryl Phillips), págs. 77-101
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article explores the notion of the heroic in fictional and non-fictional work by Black British writer Caryl Phillips. Taking a point of departure in an ambivalent Caribbean longing for heroes, the piece discusses hero-theory and its usefulness for the types of heroes found in in Phillips’ writing. It focusses in particular on Crossing the River, The Atlantic Sound and A Distant Shore in its elaboration on what constitutes a Phillipsian heroic and how and where to locate these heroes. Traits such as dignity, courage, the clarity of no-saying and global ways of being and seeing emerge as heroic traits and are discussed with references also to some of Phillips’ essay from both A New World Order and Colour me English