A Genealogy of the Recognition of Blackness in Caryl Phillipsâs Cambridge and Foreigners: Three English Lives

Malica S. Willie

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004545557_006

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This chapter contends that Caryl Phillipsâs Cambridge (1991) and Foreigners: Three English Lives (2007) exemplify a genealogy of the recognition of blackness. Through Cambridge, in the eponymous novel, and Francis Barber and Randolph Turpin, two of Foreignersâ three black protagonists, Phillips signals a carryover from the sixteenth to the twentieth century of negative perceptions (and self-perceptions) of blackness. Additionally, Foreigners portrays, through its third black protagonist, David Oluwale, that even in the twentieth century, fighting against racism might lead to torture and death, indicating that despite the passage of time, and strides having been made by black people, there is a pervasive desire to erase or vilify them, which invariably impacts their identities and their overall being-in-the-world, as Heidegger refers to it.

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Caryl Phillipsâs Genealogies

Series:Â Cross/Cultures, Volume: 220

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004545557

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 06 May 2023

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- American Studies
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- Literature and Cultural Studies

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Part 1 Parallel Genealogies

Part 2 Intellectual Genealogies

Part 3 Gender

Part 4 Cinema and Radio Plays

Part 5 Short Texts

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