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Radio drama and its avatars in the work of Caryl Phillips
Ledent, Bénédicte
2018In Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54 (1), p. 32-42
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Keywords :
Caryl Phillips; Radio drama; minor genre
Abstract :
[en] Between 1984 and 2016 Caryl Phillips wrote nine radio plays which were all broadcast on the BBC. Meant for a different circuit of communication than his novels, essays and published stage plays, Phillips’s radio plays might be dismissed as minor writing, yet they constitute a fascinating, under-investigated body of texts which are worth exploring alongside the rest of his work. Thematically, Phillips’s radio drama covers similar ground to his fiction and essays. Starting from this sense of familiarity, this article examines the formal and communicative specificities at play in Phillips’s contributions to the radio drama genre. Focusing on two radio plays entitled Crossing the River (1985) and A Kind of Home: James Baldwin in Paris (2004), this piece discusses which features of this marginal genre inform Phillips’s radio-dramatic characterization of protagonists with complex identities, but also, more generally, how these aspects infuse his formally experimental fiction.
Research center :
CEREP - Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Études Postcoloniales - ULiège
Disciplines :
Literature
Author, co-author :
Ledent, Bénédicte  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : ling., litt. et trad. > Langue et linguistique anglaises modernes
Language :
English
Title :
Radio drama and its avatars in the work of Caryl Phillips
Publication date :
2018
Journal title :
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
ISSN :
1744-9855
eISSN :
1744-9863
Publisher :
Routledge
Volume :
54
Issue :
1
Pages :
32-42
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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