Caryl Phillips
EXTRAVAGANT STRANGERS
Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies. Brought up in England, he has written for television, radio, theater, and cinema. He is the author of one book of nonfiction, The European Tribe, and six novels, The Final Passsage, A State of Independence, Higher Ground, Cambridge, Crossing the River, and The Nature of Blood. His awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He divides his time between London and New York.
ALSO BY CARYL PHILLLIPS
Fiction
The Final Passage
A State of Independence
Higher Ground
Cambridge
Crossing the River
The Nature of Blood
Nonfiction
The European Tribe
Plays
Strange Fruit
Where There Is Darkness
The Shelter
Screenplay
Flaying Away
For Aziza and Radhiyyah
Your daughter, if you have not given her leave
I say again, hath made a gross revolt;
Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes
In an extravagant and wheeling stranger
Of here and everywhere.
Othello, Act I, scene 1
Contents
Editor’s Note
Preface
UKAWSAW GRONNIOSAW, The Shortcomings of Christian England [1770]
IGNATIUS SANCHO, Letter to Mr Sterne [1776]
OLAUDAH EQUIANO, Voyage to England [1789]
WILLIAM THACKERAY, A Word about Dinners [1846]
JOSEPH CONRAD, From The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ [1897]
RUDYARD KIPLING, The English Flag [1891]
WYNDHAM LEWIS, Letter to David Kahma [1947]; Letter to Geoffrey Stone [1948]; Letter to Edgar Preston Richardson [1948]
T. S. ELIOT, Letter to Henry Eliot [1914]; Letter to Eleanor Hinkley [1914]
KATHERINE MANSFIELD, The Tiredness of Rosabel [1924]
