Mediating the Windrush Children: Caryl Phillips and Horace Ové

ISBN-13: 9781433174247 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 78 str.

Josiane Ranguin

Opis

Mediating the Windrush Generation analyses three plays by St. Kitts-born British playwright Caryl Phillips and a film by Trinidadian-British filmmaker Horace Ové as depictions of the experience of the Windrush generation, a term which refers to the Anglo-Caribbean immigrants recruited to help rebuild Britain in the aftermath of World War II.

Recenzje

"I first met Horace Ové the way he would want me to meet him-through his work. In 1981, I was working as the Writer-in-Residence at The Factory Community Centre in Paddington. One evening there was a screening of Horace Ové's film Pressure (1975). I was interested, of course, not only because it was a film by Horace Ové, but it featured a script by Sam Selvon. That these 'older' guys were attempting to understand 'my generation' was a great revelation to me. I was familiar with their take on those who had arrived from the Caribbean-the first generation, if you like-but Ové and Selvon were trying to examine a second-generation disaffection and alienation with which I was only too familiar."-Caryl Phillips, 2019

Spis treści

Introduction - Horace Ové's Pressure (1975) - Strange Fruit (1981) - Where There Is Darkness (1982) - The Shelter (1984) - Writing in Spirals - Notes - References.

O autorze

Josiane Ranguin was awarded her Ph.D. in English and postcolonial literature by Université Sorbonne Paris-Cité where she currently teaches English and postcolonial film as a Senior Lecturer.