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Thoughts About Migrations and Belonging Before and After 9/11
New Press
August 2011
On Sale: August 9, 2011
352 pages
ISBN: 1595586504
EAN: 9781595586506
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Born in St. Kitts and brought up in the UK, bestselling
author Caryl Phillips has written about and explored the
experience of migration for more than thirty years through
his spellbinding and award-winning novels, plays, and essays. Now, in a magnificent and beautifully written new book,
Phillips reflects on the shifting notions of race, culture,
and belonging before and after the September 11 attacks on
the World Trade Center. Color Me English opens with an inspired story from his
boyhood, a poignant account of a shared sense of isolation
he felt with the first Muslim boy who joined his school.
Phillips then turns to his years living and teaching in the
United States, including a moving account of the day the
twin towers fell. We follow him across Europe and through
Africa while he grapples with making sense of colonial
histories and contemporary migrations—engaging with
legendary African, African American, and international
writers from James Baldwin and Richard Wright to Chinua
Achebe and Ha Jin who have aspired to see themselves and
their own societies more clearly. A truly transnational reflection on race and culture in a
post-9/11 world, Color Me English is a stunning collection
of writing that is at once timeless and urgent.
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