Caryl Phillips; Radio drama; Hotel Cristobel; Beinecke Library; Caribbean Literature; Archives
Abstract :
[en] Starting from the idea that radio drama is a generic hinterland, this essay concentrates on one of Phillips’s radio plays, Hotel Cristobel, which was broadcast in 2005 but started as a stage play back in the 1990s. As its title suggests, this play is set in a Caribbean hotel and explores the neo-colonial interactions between three characters, who all come with significant historical baggage. This essay provides a reading of this dramatic text, relying on the script found in the author’s archives held at the Beinecke Library (Yale University), but also on different unpublished documents available there.
Research Center/Unit :
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 :
An Archival Exploration of Radio Dramatic Hinterlands: Caryl Phillips’s Hotel Cristobel
Publication date :
April 2021
Journal title :
Journal of West Indian Literature
ISSN :
0258-8501
eISSN :
2414-3030
Publisher :
University of the West Indies. Department of Literatures in English, Bridgetown, Barbados
