Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging

by Caryl Phillips

Book Overview

Shakespeare called Othello "an extravagant and wheeling stranger/Of here and every where." In this exciting anthology, Caryl Phillips has collected writings by thirty-nine extravagant strangers: British writers who were born outside of Britain and see it with clear and critical eyes. These eloquent and incisive voices prove that English literature, far from being pure or homogenous, has in fact been shaped and influenced by outsiders for over...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679781544
• ISBN13: 9780679781547
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.0"