Sulter, Maud. “Notes of a Native Daughter”. Let It Be Told, edited by Lauretta Ngcobo, Pluto, 1987, pp. 53 -67.
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Caryl Phillips
Standard Name: Phillips, Caryl
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jean Rhys | In 2018 the black British writer Caryl Phillips
(male and of Caribbean origin) published a novel entitled A View of the Empire at Sunset, whose protagonist, Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams, born in what is... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maud Sulter | MS
attended a writing week for Black people at the Arvon Foundation in Yorkshire (with poet Grace Nichols
and playwright Caryl Phillips
as resident writers), and was encouraged to publish her poem As a Blackwoman. |
| Literary responses | Shelagh Delaney | The race issue received astonishingly little attention from reviewers, probably because SD
was so far ahead of her time in acknowledging its existence. However, Colin MacInnes
(himself homosexual and author of the novel City of... |
Timeline
1957
Colin MacInnes
(son of novelist Angela Thirkell
) published the first of his three Londonnovels of the 1950s, City of Spades, a pioneering study of immigrant Black society in Britain.