Secker and Warburg (UK); Vintage (USA), 2001
Phillips begins this distinctive collection of essays by establishing his belief that there is a "new world order" of cultural plurality, one which is being promoted by the increasingly central role of the migrant and the refugee in the modern world.
Faber and Faber (UK); Alfred A. Knopf (USA), 2000
The Atlantic Sound explores the complex notion of what constitutes "home." Seen through the historical prism of the Atlantic slave trade, Phillips undertakes a personal quest to come to terms with dislocation and discontinuities that a diasporan history engenders in the soul of an individual.
Faber and Faber (UK); Farrar, Strauss & Giroux (USA), 1987
Caryl Phillips chronicles a journey through modern-day Europe, his quest guided by a moral compass rather than a map. Seeking personal definition within the parameters of growing up black in Europe, he discovers that the natural loneliness and confusion inherent in long journeys collide with the bigotry of the "European Tribe"—a global community of whites caught up in an unyielding, Eurocentric history.