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This seminar aims at introducing participants to a significant contemporary British key author, and is targeted specifically at master's students. Through this seminar, students will engage with the impressive literary, cultural and intellectual output of Mike Phillips, a Caribbean-born British novelist, historian and curator, who is an award-winning crime author and a former journalist and screenwriter (https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/mike-phillips).
We will read, and discuss, selected works, including Phillips's crime novels Blood Rights (1989) and Point of Darkness (1994), featuring Britain's first Black investigator Sam Dean, London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain (2001), a collection of interlinked autobiographical essays and stories, as well as excerpts from the critically acclaimed BBC series Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain (1998, written with his brother Trevor Phillips), and Notting Hill in the Sixties (1991, with photographs by Charlie Phillips).
Texts:
- Mike Phillips, Blood Rights (out of print; used copies available online)
- Mike Phillips, Point of Darkness (out of print; used copies available online)
- Mike Phillips, London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain (out of print; used copies available online)
- a course reader containing excerpts from Windrush and Notting Hill in the Sixties as well as a selection of critical texts by the author will be available from week 2 at the copy shop Reckhammerweg
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