Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River and the Chorus of Archival Memory

Starting from the vocal nature of Crossing the River, the article looks at Caryl Phillips's archives housed at the Beinecke Library and thereby attempts to retrieve the voices that did not make it into the book, but which are nonetheless important pieces in the writers's imaginative universe. This article will refer to three thematically linked radio plays as well as an early draft of the third section of the 1993 novel.