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A Caribbean Voice: The Radio's Legacy in Caryl Phillips's Work

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Abstract

Most critics who have worked to restore the significance of Phillips's radio documentaries and marginalised literary productions have done so by relating them to his more widely read and celebrated novels, an approach that makes sense since the scripts of these 'minor genres' are usually not readily available. Such comparative approaches are important to literary criticism because they illustrate, as Bénédicte Ledent suggests, "the continuity but also the evolution in Phillips's preoccupations."In this chapter, I extend these readings by looking outward, in order to register the significance of Phillips's radio drama and documentaries to the broader context of Caribbean studies as well as his own relationship to the field's imbrication with mass media communications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCross/Cultures
PublisherBrill Academic Publishers
Pages209-225
Number of pages17
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023

Publication series

NameCross/Cultures
Volume220
ISSN (Print)0924-1426

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