A New World Order
Essays
The Africa of his ancestry, the Caribbean of his birth, the Britain of his upbringing, and the United States where he now lives are the focal points of award-winning writer Caryl Phillips’ profound inquiry into evolving notions of home, identity, and belonging in an increasingly international society.
At once deeply reflective and coolly prescient, A New World Order charts the psychological frontiers of our ever-changing world. Through personal and literary encounters, Phillips probes the meaning of cultural dislocation, measuring the distinguishing features of our identities–geographic, racial, national, religious–against the amalgamating effects of globalization. In the work of writers such as V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, and Zadie Smith, cultural figures such as Steven Spielberg, Linton Kwesi Johnson, and Marvin Gaye, and…
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April 30, 2002Caryl 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.
The Housing Lark
Sam Selvon; Foreword by Caryl Phillips; Introduction by Dohra Ahmad
In the Falling Snow
Caryl Phillips
Foreigners
Caryl Phillips
Dancing in the Dark
Caryl Phillips
A Distant Shore
Caryl Phillips
A New World Order
Caryl Phillips
The Atlantic Sound
Caryl Phillips
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
The Right Set
Caryl Phillips, Editor
Extravagant Strangers
Edited and with an Introduction by Caryl Phillips
The Nature of Blood
Caryl Phillips