2006-2007 Travel
Caryl Phillips / "Border Crossings" (October 25, 2006)
 
 




 

 

 

Caryl Phillips
Border Crossings

2006-2007 Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture

Penn Humanities Forum on Travel

University of Pennsylvania
October 25, 2006
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Born on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, brought up in Leeds, and educated at Oxford, Caryl Phillips has written for television, radio, theatre, and cinema, and is the author of three works of nonfiction and eight novels. Much of his writing has focused on displacement, especially the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade for the African Diaspora.