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HISTORY AND RACE IN CARYL PHILLIPSS THE NATURE ...

This monograph examines Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood (1997)  a novel exploring
recurring expressions of exclusion and discrimination throughout history with particular focus
on Jewish and African diasporas and the storytelling of its migrant characters. Particular
attention is given to the analysis of characters revealing different facets of the Jewish
question. Maria Festa also provides a historical excursus on the notion of race and considers
another character alluding to Shakespeare's Othello to expose the paradoxes of the relationship
between subjugator and subjugated. The study makes the case that among the novel's most
remarkable achievements is Phillips's effort to redress the absence of the Other from our
history  that by depicting experiences of displacement  and by confronting readers with
seemingly disconnected narrative fragments  The Nature of Blood is a reminder of the missing
stories  the voices-marginalised and often racialized-that Western history has consistently
failed to include in its accounts of the past and arguably its present.

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