Caryl Phillips’s Genealogies (Cross/Cultures, 220)

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Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword: “The Paper Woman”
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Reading ‘Caz’ through, and with, ‘Béné’
Part 1 Parallel Genealogies
	Chapter 1 The Space of Crossing: Caryl Phillips, Jenny Erpenbeck, and Parallel Genealogy
		1 The Space of Crossing
		2 The Refugee
		3 The Host
		4 Lives across Time
		5 Life in Times
		6 Crossing the Water
		Works Cited
	Chapter 2 “My Foolish Voice”: Voice and Alterity in the Fiction of Caryl Phillips and Russell Banks
		Works Cited
Part 2 Intellectual Genealogies
	Chapter 3 Dialogues with History: An Existentialist Reading of Caryl Phillips’s Rough Crossings
		1 Intellectual Affinities as Mode of Belonging
		2 Rough Crossings as “Performative Historiography”
		3 The Existential(ist) Stage: A Literary Historicity
		4 Hearing the Other Out
		Works Cited
	Chapter 4 A Genealogy of the Recognition of Blackness in Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge and Foreigners: Three English Lives
		Works Cited
	Chapter 5 Autogenealogies: Caryl Phillips, Isaac Julien, and the Invention of Self
		1 Of and Not Of
		2 Marvellous Entanglements
		3 Coda
		Works Cited
	Chapter 6 Translating Caryl Phillips: Downriver Genealogies
		Works Cited
Part 3 Gender
	Chapter 7 European vs. African Gendered Genealogies: Revisiting Othello in Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood and Toni Morrison’s Desdemona
		Acknowledgements
		Works Cited
	Chapter 8 Putting His Words in Her Mouth?: Caryl Phillips’s Women Characters
		Works Cited
	Chapter 9 Cross-sexing the River and Messing with Order: A Queer Reading of Caryl Phillips’s In the Falling Snow
		Acknowledgements
		Works Cited
Part 4 Cinema and Radio Plays
	Chapter 10 A Caribbean Voice: The Radio’s Legacy in Caryl Phillips’s Work
		Works Cited
	Chapter 11 Formal Innovation and Cinematic Imagination in Caryl Phillips’s Dancing in the Dark
		1 Writing with a Camera’s Eye
		2 Montage: Fragmentation and Discontinuity
		3 Light, Colour, and Sound
		Works Cited
Part 5 Short Texts
	Chapter 12 The Gentle Strength of Literary Appreciation: Critical Attention in Bénédicte Ledent’s Readings of Caryl Phillips
		Works Cited
	Chapter 13 Luminary of the Liège Legacy: A eULogy4.béné
		Works Cited
	Chapter 14 A Bulwark against Intolerance and Hospitality as Praxis: A Few Scattered Notes on Caryl Phillips and Bénédicte Ledent
		Works Cited
	Chapter 15 A View of the Empress at Sunset: A (Not-So-Cheeky) Tribute to Bénédicte Ledent
	Chapter 16 A Letter to Béné
		Works Cited
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