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5 Critical overview and conclusion
Abstract
This chapter summarises some of the most significant trends in the critical approaches to the work of Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar. It then emphasises important points made throughout the study. It notes that slavery has been overlooked in received historical narratives of Britain, and that the texts of these three writers that were studied in this book have tried to redress the silence surrounding slavery and show why it is important that this past is not forgotten.
Abstract
This chapter summarises some of the most significant trends in the critical approaches to the work of Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar. It then emphasises important points made throughout the study. It notes that slavery has been overlooked in received historical narratives of Britain, and that the texts of these three writers that were studied in this book have tried to redress the silence surrounding slavery and show why it is important that this past is not forgotten.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements viii
- Series editor’s foreword ix
- List of abbreviations x
- Chronology xi
- 1 Contexts and intertexts 1
- 2 Caryl Phillips and the absent voices of history 25
- 3 David Dabydeen and the ethics of narration 82
- 4 Fred D’Aguiar and the memorialisation of slavery 131
- 5 Critical overview and conclusion 180
- Notes 191
- Select bibliography 219
- Index 227
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements viii
- Series editor’s foreword ix
- List of abbreviations x
- Chronology xi
- 1 Contexts and intertexts 1
- 2 Caryl Phillips and the absent voices of history 25
- 3 David Dabydeen and the ethics of narration 82
- 4 Fred D’Aguiar and the memorialisation of slavery 131
- 5 Critical overview and conclusion 180
- Notes 191
- Select bibliography 219
- Index 227
