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Caryl Phillips
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<h2 id="life">Life</h2> <p>Caryl Phillips was born in <a href="/facts/Saint_Kitts/C0Se3rYk">St. Kitts</a> to Malcolm and Lillian Phillips on 13 March 1958.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> When he was four months old, his family moved to England and settled in <a href="/facts/Leeds/YVPtUCt1">Leeds</a>, Yorkshire.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> In 1976, Phillips won a place at <a href="/facts/Queen%2527s_College%2c_Oxford/HNfCLF9K">Queen's College, Oxford University</a>, where he read English, graduating in 1979.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> While at Oxford, he directed numerous plays and spent his summers working as a stagehand at the <a href="/facts/Edinburgh_Festival/N2aRh3Wq">Edinburgh Festival</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> On graduating, he moved to Edinburgh, where he lived for a year, on the <a href="/facts/Unemployment_benefits/rCzFFgmQ">dole</a>, while writing his first play, <i>Strange Fruit</i> (1980), which was taken up and produced by the <a href="/facts/Crucible_Theatre/gwHuKyF0">Crucible Theatre</a> in <a href="/facts/Sheffield/rp05rhlH">Sheffield</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> Phillips subsequently moved to London, where he wrote two more plays – <i>Where There is Darkness</i> (1982) and <i>Shelter</i> (1983) – that were staged at the <a href="/facts/Lyric_Hammersmith/AF4kqDtS">Lyric Hammersmith</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> </p><p>At the age of 22, he visited St. Kitts for the first time since his family had left the island in 1958.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> The journey provided the inspiration for his first novel, <i><a href="/facts/The_Final_Passage/yNQ6hBC2">The Final Passage</a></i>, which was published five years later.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> After publishing his second book, <i>A State of Independence</i> (1986), Phillips went on a one-month journey around Europe, which resulted in his 1987 collection of essays <i>The European Tribe</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a> During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Phillips divided his time between England and St. Kitts while working on his novels <i>Higher Ground</i> (1989) and <i>Cambridge</i> (1991).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a> At that time, Phillips was a member of the <a href="/facts/Bristol_Black_Writers_Group/LgzrV6YM">Black Bristol Writers Group</a>, which helped to foster his creative writing.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> </p><p>In 1990, Phillips took up a Visiting Writer post at <a href="/facts/Amherst_College/wuUaPkCS">Amherst College</a> in <a href="/facts/Amherst%2c_Massachusetts/u8KnDYqx">Amherst, Massachusetts</a>. He remained at Amherst College for a further eight years, becoming the youngest English tenured professor in the US when he was promoted to that position in 1995.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a> During this time, he wrote what is perhaps his best-known novel, <i>Crossing the River</i> (1993), which won the <a href="/facts/Commonwealth_Writers%2527_Prize/VyPXLLX3">Commonwealth Writers' Prize</a> and the <a href="/facts/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize/V8Ga2FGB">James Tait Black Memorial Prize</a>, and was shortlisted for the <a href="/facts/Booker_Prize/P0yfbNIl">Booker Prize</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a> After taking up the position at Amherst, Phillips found himself doing "a sort of triangular thing" for a number of years, residing between England, St Kitts, and the U.S.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a> </p><p>Finding this way of living both "incredibly exhausting" and "prohibitively expensive", Phillips ultimately decided to give up his residence in St. Kitts, though he says he still makes regular visits to the island.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a> In 1998, he joined <a href="/facts/Barnard_College/wuo1dlWK">Barnard College</a>, <a href="/facts/Columbia_University/Hlf1gw53">Columbia University</a>, as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Migration and Social Order.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27"><sup>27</sup></a> In 2005 he moved to <a href="/facts/Yale_University/KUdS6jt1">Yale University</a>, where he currently works as Professor of English.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28"><sup>28</sup></a> He was made an elected fellow of the <a href="/facts/Royal_Society_of_Literature/kPaMqF3R">Royal Society of Literature</a> in 2000, and an elected fellow of the <a href="/facts/Royal_Society_of_Arts/kpMQw9jc">Royal Society of Arts</a> in 2011.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29"><sup>29</sup></a> </p><p>Phillips supports football team <a href="/facts/Leeds_United/NEBBYkBD">Leeds United</a> and watches "every game".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30"><sup>30</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="works-and-critical-reception">Works and critical reception</h2> <p>Phillips has tackled themes on the African <a href="/facts/History_of_slavery/hxBKUmYG">slave trade</a> from many angles, and his writing is concerned with issues of "origins, belongings and exclusion", as noted by a reviewer of his 2015 novel <i>The Lost Child</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31"><sup>31</sup></a> <i>The Atlantic Sound</i> has been compared to the travel writing in <i><a href="/facts/Looking_for_Transwonderland/P1Bcnjuw">Looking for Transwonderland</a>,</i> by Nigerian writer <a href="/facts/Noo_Saro-Wiwa/TU717WHn">Noo Saro-Wiwa</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32"><sup>32</sup></a> </p><p>Phillips received the <a href="/facts/PEN%2fBeyond_Margins_Award/XRs9I5M5">PEN/Beyond Margins Award</a> for <i>Dancing in the Dark</i> in 2006. </p> <h2 id="activism">Activism</h2> <p>Phillips is the patron of the David Oluwale Memorial Association, which works to promote the memory of the <a href="/facts/Death_of_David_Oluwale/Q2HqG9vp">death of David Oluwale</a>, a Nigerian man in Leeds who was persecuted to death by the police.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33"><sup>33</sup></a> On 25 April 2022 Phillips unveiled a <a href="/facts/Leeds_Civic_Trust/PYo7fJpr">Leeds Civic Trust</a> <a href="/facts/Blue_plaque/8VXfKyW9">blue plaque</a> commemorating Oluwale's death, which was torn down hours later.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34"><sup>34</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2> <h3>Novels</h3> <ul><li><i><a href="/facts/The_Final_Passage/yNQ6hBC2">The Final Passage</a></i> (Faber and Faber, 1985, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0571134373; Picador, 1995, paperback <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0571134373)</li> <li><i>A State of Independence</i> (Faber and Faber, 1986, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0571139101; paperback <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0571196791)</li> <li><i>Higher Ground: A Novel in Three Parts</i> (Viking, 1989, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0670826209)</li> <li><i>Cambridge</i> (Bloomsbury, 1991; Vintage, 2008, paperback <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0099520566)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Crossing_the_River/xxGrScwh">Crossing the River</a></i> (Bloomsbury, 1993, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0747514978)</li> <li><i>The Nature of Blood</i> (1997; Vintage, 2008, paperback <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0099520573)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/A_Distant_Shore_(novel)/hfoVV6SL">A Distant Shore</a></i> (Secker, 2003, hardback <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0436205644; Vintage, 2004, paperback <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0099428886)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Dancing_in_the_Dark_(novel)/bg7jmAyV">Dancing in the Dark</a></i> (Secker, 2005, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0436205835)</li> <li><i>Foreigners: Three English Lives</i> (Harvill Secker, 2007, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0436205972)</li> <li><i>In the Falling Snow</i> (Harvill Secker, 2009, hardback <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1846553066; Vintage, 2010, paperback <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0099539742)</li> <li><i>The Lost Child</i> (Oneworld Publications, 2015, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1780746999 hardback, 978-1780747989 paperback)</li> <li><i>A View of the Empire at Sunset: A Novel</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018, hardback, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0374283612)</li> <li><i>Another Man in the Street</i>. 7 January 2025. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-374-61355-6. <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:35" href="#fn:35"><sup>35</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:36" href="#fn:36"><sup>36</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:37" href="#fn:37"><sup>37</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:38" href="#fn:38"><sup>38</sup></a></li></ul> <h3>Essay collections</h3> <ul><li><i><a href="/facts/The_European_Tribe/S6s6rMvE">The European Tribe</a></i> (Faber and Faber, 1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/The_Atlantic_Sound/kyFRxTbW">The Atlantic Sound</a></i> (Faber and Faber, 2000, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0571196203)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/A_New_World_Order/49bjQJjL">A New World Order</a>: Selected Essays</i> (Martin Secker & Warburg, 2001, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0436205606)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Colour_Me_English/B2Pel7gl">Colour Me English</a></i> (Harvill Secker, 2011, paperback <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1846553059)</li></ul> <h3>As editor</h3> <ul><li><i>Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging</i> (Faber and Faber, 1997, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0571190867)</li></ul> <h3>Plays</h3> <ul><li><i>Strange Fruit</i> (Amber Lane Press, 1980, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0906399279)</li> <li><i>The Shelter</i> (Amber Lane Press, 1984, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0906399491)</li> <li><i>Playing Away</i> (Faber and Faber, 1987, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0571145836)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Ned_Chaillet/EvpQ10ol">A Kind of Home – James Baldwin in Paris</a></i> (<a href="/facts/BBC_Radio_4/7jFBld49">BBC Radio 4</a>, 9 January 2004)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:39" href="#fn:39"><sup>39</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Ned_Chaillet/EvpQ10ol">Hotel Cristobel</a></i> (<a href="/facts/BBC_Radio_3/A39D28sj">BBC Radio 3</a>, 13 March 2005)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:40" href="#fn:40"><sup>40</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Ned_Chaillet/EvpQ10ol">A Long Way from Home</a></i> (BBC Radio 3, 30 March 2008)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:41" href="#fn:41"><sup>41</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:42" href="#fn:42"><sup>42</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="awards">Awards</h2> <ul><li>1987 <a href="/facts/Martin_Luther_King_Memorial_Prize/PePcuhup">Martin Luther King Memorial Prize</a>, <i>The European Tribe</i></li> <li>1993 <a href="/facts/Guggenheim_Fellowship/SuatTbVK">Guggenheim Fellowship</a></li> <li>1994 <a href="/facts/Lannan_Literary_Award/a55Hxtl3">Lannan Literary Award</a></li> <li>1994 <a href="/facts/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize/V8Ga2FGB">James Tait Black Memorial Prize</a>, <i>Crossing the River</i></li> <li>2000 Fellow of the <a href="/facts/Royal_Society_of_Literature/kPaMqF3R">Royal Society of Literature</a></li> <li>2004 <a href="/facts/Commonwealth_Writers_Prize/VyPXLLX3">Commonwealth Writers Prize</a>, <i>Crossing the River</i></li> <li>2006 Honorary Fellow of <a href="/facts/The_Queen%2527s_College%2c_Oxford/HNfCLF9K">The Queen's College, Oxford</a></li> <li>2006 <a href="/facts/Commonwealth_Writers_Prize/VyPXLLX3">Commonwealth Writers Prize</a>, <i>A Distant Shore</i></li> <li>2011 Fellow of the <a href="/facts/Royal_Society_of_Arts/kpMQw9jc">Royal Society of Arts</a></li> <li>2012 <a href="/facts/Best_of_the_James_Tait_Black/V8Ga2FGB">Best of the James Tait Black</a>, shortlist, <i>Crossing the River</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:43" href="#fn:43"><sup>43</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:44" href="#fn:44"><sup>44</sup></a></li></ul> <h3>Notes</h3> <h3>Sources</h3> <ul><li>Bell, C. Rosalind (Summer 1991). "Worlds Within: An Interview with Caryl Phillips". <i>Callaloo</i>. 14 (3): 578–606. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2931461">10.2307/2931461</a>. <a href="/facts/JSTOR_(identifier)/YTeVmaJ7">JSTOR</a> <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2931461">2931461</a>.</li> <li>Bewes, Timothy (Spring 2006). "Shame, Ventriloquy and the Problem of Cliche in Caryl Phillips". <i>Cultural Critique</i>. 63: 33–60. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fcul.2006.0014">10.1353/cul.2006.0014</a>.</li> <li>Booker Prize Foundation. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121027193951/http://themanbookerprize.com/people/caryl-phillips">"Caryl Phillips"</a>. Booker Prize Foundation. Archived from <a href="http://www.themanbookerprize.com/people/caryl-phillips">the original</a> on 27 October 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2012.</li> <li>British Council. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120820012148/http://literature.britishcouncil.org/caryl-phillips">"Caryl Phillips"</a>. British Council. Archived from <a href="http://literature.britishcouncil.org/caryl-phillips">the original</a> on 20 August 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2012.</li> <li>Cummins, Anthony (18 January 2025). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250118220121/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/18/caryl-phillips-novel-another-man-in-the-street-interview">"Caryl Phillips: 'It was Britain that made me a writer'"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. Archived from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/18/caryl-phillips-novel-another-man-in-the-street-interview">the original</a> on 18 January 2025.</li> <li>Eckstein, Lars (April 2001). <a href="https://archive.today/20130115161349/http://ariel.synergiesprairies.ca/ariel/index.php/ariel/article/view/3555/3496">"The Insistence of Voices: An Interview with Caryl Phillips"</a>. <i>Ariel</i>. 32 (2): 33–43. Archived from <a href="http://ariel.synergiesprairies.ca/ariel/index.php/ariel/article/view/3555/3496">the original</a> on 15 January 2013.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Maya_Jaggi/as2UWy6G">Jaggi, Maya</a> (3 November 2001). <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/nov/03/fiction.artsandhumanities">"Caryl Phillips: The Guardian Profile"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. Retrieved 12 June 2012.</li> <li>Low, Gail (Winter 1998). "'A Chorus of Common Memory': Slavery and Redemption in Caryl Phillips' <i>Cambridge</i> and <i>Crossing the River</i>". <i>Research in African Literatures</i>. 29 (1): 121–141.</li> <li>Metcalfe, Anna (21 June 2010). <a href="https://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/bcc17536-7a61-11df-9cd7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1xdTTH6rU">"Small Talk: Caryl Phillips"</a>. <i>The Financial Times</i>. <a href="https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221211231247/https://www.ft.com/content/bcc17536-7a61-11df-9cd7-00144feabdc0#axzz1xdTTH6rU">Archived</a> from the original on 11 December 2022. Retrieved 12 June 2012.</li> <li>Phillips, Caryl; Sharpe, Jenny (1995). "Of this Time, of that Place". <i>Transition</i>. 68 (68): 154–161. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2935298">10.2307/2935298</a>. <a href="/facts/JSTOR_(identifier)/YTeVmaJ7">JSTOR</a> <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2935298">2935298</a>.</li> <li>Phillips, Caryl (17 October 2010). <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/17/caryl-phillips-edinburgh-once-upon-a-life">"Once upon a life"</a>. <i>The Observer (Observer Magazine)</i>. p. 14. Retrieved 12 June 2012.</li> <li>Phillips, Caryl (2005–2010). <a href="http://www.carylphillips.com/education-teaching.html">"Biography: Education and Teaching"</a>. <i>Caryl Phillips: The Official Website</i>. Retrieved 10 September 2012.</li> <li>Phillips, Caryl (2005–2010b). <a href="http://www.carylphillips.com/awards.html">"Biography:Awards"</a>. <i>Caryl Phillips</i>. Retrieved 10 September 2012.</li> <li>Sethi, Anita (22 May 2009). <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/caryl-phillips-i-prefer-not-to-raise-my-head-above-the-parapet-1688887.html">"Caryl Phillips: I prefer not to raise my head above the parapet"</a>. <i>The Independent</i>. Retrieved 12 June 2012.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Graham_Swift/Sc0QpaAA">Swift, Graham</a> (Winter 1992). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120526071715/http://bombsite.com/issues/38/articles/1511">"Caryl Phillips (An Interview)"</a>. <i>BOMB</i>. 38. Archived from <a href="http://bombsite.com/issues/38/articles/1511">the original</a> on 26 May 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2012.</li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li>Charras, Françoise, "De-Centering the Center: George Lamming's <i>Natives of My Person</i> (1972) and Caryl Phillips's <i>Cambridge</i> (1991)", in Maria Diedrich, Carl Pedersen and Justine Tally (eds), <i>Mapping African America: History, Narrative Form and the Production of Knowledge</i>. Hamburg: LIT, 1999, pp. 61–78.</li> <li>Joannou, Maroula. "'Go West, Old Woman': The Radical Re-Visioning of Slave History in Caryl Phillips's <i>Crossing the River</i>", in Brycchan Carey and Peter J. Kitson (eds), <i>Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition: Essays Marking the Bicentennial of the British Abolition Act of 1807</i>. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2007.</li> <li>Ledent, Bénédicte. <i>Caryl Phillips</i>. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002.</li> <li><a href="http://journal.afroeuropa.eu/index.php/afroeuropa/article/viewFile/57/71">Muñoz-Valdivieso, Sofia, "'Amazing Grace': The Ghosts of Newton, Equiano and Barber in Caryl Phillips's Fiction"</a>[<i>permanent dead link</i>], <i>Afroeuropa</i> 2, 1 (2008).</li> <li><a href="/facts/Evelyn_O%2527Callaghan/b9LUHsby">O'Callaghan, Evelyn</a>. "Historical Fiction and Fictional History: Caryl Phillips's <i>Cambridge</i>", <i><a href="/facts/Journal_of_Commonwealth_Literature/5kogmT3e">Journal of Commonwealth Literature</a></i> 29.2 (1993): 34–47.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> Wikiquote has quotations related to <i>Caryl Phillips</i>. <ul><li><a href="http://www.carylphillips.com">Caryl Phillips' official website</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.L3.ulg.ac.be/phillips">The Caryl Phillips Bibliography</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051030080323/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth80">Caryl Phillips' Writers Page</a> at the British Council</li> <li><a href="https://english.yale.edu/people/tenured-and-tenure-track-faculty-professors-creative-writers/caryl-phillips">Phillips at Yale University</a></li> <li>Caryl Phillips Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.</li> <li><a href="https://www.npr.org/2015/03/21/394127475/lost-child-author-caryl-phillips-i-needed-to-know-where-i-came-from">"'Lost Child' Author Caryl Phillips: 'I Needed To Know Where I Came From'"</a>, NPR interview, 21 March 2015.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Jaggi 2001. - Jaggi, Maya (3 November 2001). "Caryl Phillips: The Guardian Profile". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 June 2012. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/nov/03/fiction.artsandhumanities" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/nov/03/fiction.artsandhumanities</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Low 1998. - Low, Gail (Winter 1998). "'A Chorus of Common Memory': Slavery and Redemption in Caryl Phillips' Cambridge and Crossing the River". Research in African Literatures. 29 (1): 121–141. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Bewes 2006. - Bewes, Timothy (Spring 2006). "Shame, Ventriloquy and the Problem of Cliche in Caryl Phillips". Cultural Critique. 63: 33–60. doi:10.1353/cul.2006.0014. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fcul.2006.0014" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fcul.2006.0014</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Sethi 2009. - Sethi, Anita (22 May 2009). "Caryl Phillips: I prefer not to raise my head above the parapet". The Independent. Retrieved 12 June 2012. <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/caryl-phillips-i-prefer-not-to-raise-my-head-above-the-parapet-1688887.html" target="_blank">https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/caryl-phillips-i-prefer-not-to-raise-my-head-above-the-parapet-1688887.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Phillips 2005–2010. - Phillips, Caryl (2005–2010). "Biography: Education and Teaching". Caryl Phillips: The Official Website. Retrieved 10 September 2012. <a href="http://www.carylphillips.com/education-teaching.html" target="_blank">http://www.carylphillips.com/education-teaching.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Jaggi 2001. - Jaggi, Maya (3 November 2001). "Caryl Phillips: The Guardian Profile". The Guardian. 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