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This volume starts from a textual analysis of Phillip's fiction and examines how it charts a new Diasporic sensibility, grounded in the novelist's Caribbeanness, but also expressive of a redifined sense of Britishness. Focusing on Phillips's pervasive interest in displacement, it also addresses characterization and the non-conventional form of his current narratives, two major aspects of his art which is discussed here in the context of current debates on post-colonialism.

Phillips, Caryl --- Historical fiction --- West Indians in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Philips, Caryl, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- West Indies --- In literature. --- Historical fiction - History and criticism. --- Philips, Caryl, - 1958 --- -Historical fiction - History and criticism. --- -Phillips (Caryl), 1958-.... --- Roman historique --- Roman antillais de langue angalise --- Esclavage --- Antillais --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- Phillips (Caryl), 1958-.... --- -Historical fiction

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How do Caribbean writers see the British countryside? Do they feel included, ignored, marginalised? In Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside, Joanna Johnson shows how writers like Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Grace Nichols, Andrea Levy, and Caryl Phillips have very different and unexpected responses to this rural space. Johnson demonstrates how Caribbean writing shows greater complexity and wider significance than accounts and understandings of the British countryside have traditionally admitted; at the same time, close examination of these works illustrates that complexity and ambiguity remain an essential part of these authors’ relationships with the British countrysides of their colonial or postcolonial imaginations. This study examines accepted norms and raises questions about urgent issues of belonging, Britishness, and Commonwealth identity.

English literature --- Literature --- literatuur --- Engelse literatuur --- Walcott, Derek --- Nichols, Grace --- Naipaul, V.S. --- Levy, Andrea --- Philips, Caryl --- Rhys, Jean --- anno 1900-1999 --- Great Britain --- Ireland --- Caribbean area --- Latin America