Contemporary World Writers (2002)

This examination of Caryl Phillips's novels by Bénédicte Ledent ranges from The Final Passage to The Nature of Blood, and considers them in relation to Phillips's plays and essays. It starts from a textual analysis of Phillips's fiction and examines how it charts a new diasporic sensibility, grounded in the novelist's Caribbeanness but also expressive of a redefined sense of Britishness. It focuses on Phillips's pervasive interest in displacement and addresses characterisation and the unconventional form of his current narratives, two major aspects of his art which are discussed here in the context of debates on postcolonialism.

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Salmagundi (2004)

Special feature includes:

• An Interview with Stephen Clingman (page 113)
• "Forms of History and Identity in The Nature of Blood," by Stephen Clingman (page 141)
• "The Nature of Refuge," by Joanna Scott (page 167)

Mail orders to Salmagundi, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. Information available online at Skidmore.edu.

Writers and their Work (2006)

Helen Thomas examines the ways in which Caryl Phillips responds both creatively and critically to the psychological effects of cultural dispersal, racism and economic exploitation in the black Atlantic. Highlighting the continuing negotiations between Britain and its previous colonies, this study demonstrates the ways in which Phillips's fictional and non-fictional work reforumulates contemporary and historical traumatic crises and corresponding agents of survival. Phillips's work is discussed not only in terms of its critical emphasis upon past events, but also in terms of its vision of a more expansive dimension of collective experience.

Dr. Helen Thomas is a lecturer in the School of English at the University of Exeter. Previous affiliation include Westminster University, Oxford Brookes and Queen Mary, University of London. She has written extensively on black writers in Britain and is a specialist in this field of the black diaspora.

To order a copy of this publication, contact Northcote House Publishers Ltd, Horndon House, Horndon, Tavistock, Devon, UK PL19 9NQ. Information is also available online at www.northcotehouse.co.uk.

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Moving Worlds (2007)

Familial & Other Conversations: Special Issue on Caryl Phillips

"Each of the contributions in this volume stands on its own, but their impact is significantly enhanced when examined in the conversational context of the whole, very much like the lives that interweave into the unforgettable choral tapestry of Caryl Phillips's books. It is only to be hoped that this issue pays a fair tribute to the latter's haunting quality." — Bénédicte Ledent, Editor

• Contents:
• Interview: Dancing in the Dark: Caryl Phillips in Conversation with John McLeod
• Caryl Phillips, "A Familial Conversation"
• John McLeod, "'Between two waves': Caryl Phillips and Black Britain"
• Abigail Ward, "An Outstretched Hand: Connection and Affiliation in Crossing the River"
• Andrew Warnes, "Enemies Within: Diaspora and Democracy in Crossing the River and A Distant Shore"
• Stephen Clingman, "'England Has Changed': Questions of National Form in A Distant Shore
• Kathie Birat, "'Really no more than a report on one man's way of seeing': Caryl Phillips's Non-fictional Works"
• Bénédicte Ledent, "Caryl Phillips and the Caribbean as Multicultural Paradigm"
• Louise Yelin, "'Living State-side': Caryl Phillips and the United States"
• Vanessa Garcia, "The Almost-Miseducation of Vanessa Garcia"

All enquiries should be sent to: The Editor, Moving Worlds, School of English, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. Information is available online at www.movingworlds.net.

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The World of Caryl Phillips: An Introduction to the Present Black British Literature (2008)

This Japanese language book is by Professor Tsunehiko Kato of Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.