Caryl Phillips on Anonymity and Cultural Identity
  • 11 years ago
Caryl Phillips on Anonymity and Cultural Identity
The New York Public Library - New York Public Library
Caryl Phillips' new book Foreigners is a hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose lives speak resoundingly to the place and role of the foreigner in English society.Together Caryl Phillips and Ian Buruma will discuss notions of identity, belonging, race, class, anti-semitism, and faith and Islam, which affect present-day Europe, reflecting on how these issues are examined in literature and the broader culture - New York Public Library