River Crossers searching for home in Caryl Philips’s works

　　Introduction
　　Chapter One Loss of Home of the Black in Slavery
　　 1. The Author's Purpose to Revisit the Past of Slavery
　　 2. A Brief History of Britain,'s Involvement in Slavery
　　 3. Slavery in Phillips's Fiction
　　 4. Legacy of Slavery in Phillips's Non-fiction
　　Chapter Two Seeking "England Dream" of the Migrants
　　 1. The Windrush Generation Migration
　　 2. The Vexing Question "Where are you from?"
　　 3. Migratory Patterns in Phillips's Fiction
　　 3.1 In Search of a New Start
　　 3.2 Escaping War and Persecution
　　 3.3 Seeking Employment
　　 4. The Fate of River Crossers
　　 4.1 The Exclusion of the Mother Country
　　 4.2 The Encounter of the Home Returning
　　 5. The Atlantic Home
　　Chapter Three The White River Crossers
　　 1. A Brief History of European River Crossings
　　 2. A Passage to "Land of Darkness".
　　 2.1 A Passage to Identity
　　 2.2 Quest for the Lost Self
　　 3. Exiles at Home
　　 3.1 Shaking off the Shackles of Manus
　　 3.2 Victims of Racism
　　 4. The White Problem
　　Chapter Four Crossings in Phillips's Narrative
　　 1. Polyphony
　　 2. Master Narrative versus Slave Narrative
　　 3. Ventriloquism
　　 4. Intertextuality
　　 5. Travel Writing
　　Conclusion
　　Bibliography
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