Of Invisible Men and Native Sons: Male Characters in Caryl Phillipsâ Fiction

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Of Invisible Men and Native Sons: Male Characters in Caryl Phillipsâ Fiction

In: Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice

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Pages:: 251â269

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004299009_013

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This essay focuses on the work of Caryl Phillips, a British author of Caribbean origin. It examines how his character-driven fiction has addressed masculinities over the years. The first part starts from the observation of a relative deficit in masculine visibility in Phillipsâ fiction from The Final Passage (1985) to A Distant Shore (2003) and takes a closer look at these âinvisible menâ, analyzing what features they share and also examining the reasons, narrative and otherwise, behind their relative inconspicuousness. The second part of the essay concentrates on Phillipsâ latest novel, In the Falling Snow (2009), which is concerned with a ânative sonâ of a kind and his relationships with his own father. The prominent male presence in this book not only begs for a re-examination of the male figures in Phillipsâ earlier fiction, it also calls into question the dichotomies that often permeate conventional approaches to gender.

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Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice

Series:Â DQR Studies in Literature Online, Volume: 58Â andÂ DQR Studies in Literature, Volume: 58

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004299009

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 07 Feb 2020

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