LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:4 April 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Polyphonic Voices of Survival:
Diaspora in Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood

Gils. M. George. M.A., B.Ed., M. Phil., Ph.D. Research Scholar

Characters Disrupted in Space

Caryl Phillips is one of the major contemporary black British writers. He was born in St. Kitts, in the Eastern Caribbean in 1958. Phillips explores the sufferings and the scattered life of the people in the diaspora through the characters disrupted in space, time, race, and gender. Phillips’s novels offer the reader to sympathize with the intricacies of lives which deserve to be explored, even if they are fictional, they are emblematic of the broken dreams and the suffering that are part and parcel of the human condition all over the world.

The Nature of Blood (1997)

Phillips’s sixth novel, The Nature of Blood (1997) alternates between four narratives, two of which take place in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century Venice and two in post-World War II Europe and Israel, while it also interjects opposing viewpoints on the two Venetian narratives.

Focus of This Paper

This paper analyses the diasporic issues of alienation, sense of belonging, racial discrimination and atrocities experienced by both the Jewish and black characters in the novel, The Nature of Blood.

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Gils. M. George. M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of English
Annamalai University
Annamalainagar
Tamilnadu
India
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