Radio Plays: The Wasted Years; Crossing the River; The Prince of Africa; Writing Fiction; A Kind of Home:...

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Caryl Phillips Bénédicte Ledent (University of Liège, Belgium)

Radio Plays

The Wasted Years; Crossing the River; The Prince of Africa; Writing Fiction; A Kind of Home:...

Caryl Phillips, Bénédicte Ledent (University of Liège, Belgium)

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Methuen Drama
26 February 2023

Radio scripts; Plays & playscripts; Literary studies: plays & playwrights

Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation. An award-winning author best known for his fiction, essays and stage plays, he is also the author of radio plays, nine of which were broadcast by the BBC between 1984 and 2016. Previously locked away in Phillips’s archives, housed at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, these hidden gems are now published in Caryl Phillips’s Radio Plays, the first collection of these important works of drama.

Despite being previously overlooked, these radio plays are fully creative works and constitute an integral part of Caryl Phillips’s literary universe. Not only do these dramatic texts display the author’s hallmark mix of formal elegance and sharp social criticism, but they also offer compelling points of comparison with the rest of his wider writing. From the experience on an eighteenth-century slave ship and the life of a migrant family in 1980s England, to an account of James Baldwin's time in Paris and Marvin Gaye's stay in Belgium, these plays grapple with expansive themes in creative and dramatic ways.

Contextualized by a scholarly introduction by Bénédicte Ledent, this volume introduces these works in the published form for the first time, allowing readers a better grasp of Phillips's narrative techniques, offering fascinating vistas into his imaginary world, which ranges from the history of the African diaspora to the predicament of displaced individuals the world over.

By: Caryl Phillips
Edited by: Bénédicte Ledent (University of Liège Belgium)
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350300057
ISBN 10: 1350300055
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 26 February 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Caryl Phillips is the award-winning author of eleven novels, four stage plays and five volumes of non-fiction, in addition to numerous radio plays, scripts and essays. His latest fiction, A View of the Empire at Sunset (2018), focuses on the life of Dominican-born writer Jean Rhys. Identity, migration and history are among the main themes of his writing, which also stands out for its formal daring. Bénédicte Ledent is honorary professor at the University of Liège. She has published extensively on Caryl Phillips and has worked on numerous editorial projects, the latest of which is a special issue of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, edited in collaboration with Daria Tunca and devoted to postcolonial biographical fiction. She is co-editor of the book series Cross/Cultures.