Research Catalog

Title

The European tribe / Caryl Phillips.

Author

Phillips, Caryl

Publication

New York : Vintage Books, 2000.

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Details

Description

ix, 133 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

In this richly descriptive and haunting narrative, Caryl Phillips chronicles a journey through modern-day Europe, his quest guided by a moral compass rather than a map. Seeking personal definition within the parameters of growing up black in Europe, he discovers that the natural loneliness and confusion inherent in long jorneys collides with the bigotry of the "European Tribe"-a global community of whites caught up in an unyielding, Eurocentric history. Phillips deftly illustrates the scenes and characters he encounters, from Casablanca and Costa del Sol to Venice, Amsterdam, Oslo, and Moscow. He ultimately discovers that "Europe is blinded by her past, and does not understand the high price of her churches, art galleries, and history as the prison from which Europeans speak." In the afterword to the Vintage edition, Phillips revisits the Europe he knew as a young man and offers fresh observations.

Subject

• Phillips, Caryl > Journeys > Europe
• Phillips, Caryl > Travel > Europe
• Europe > Description and travel
• Europe > Race relations

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Hollywood's 'Casablanca' -- Britain's Gibraltar -- A pagan Spain -- Dinner at Jimmy's -- A black European success -- In the ghetto -- Autumn in Paris -- Anne Frank's Amsterdam -- History is to blame -- A German interlude -- How much more of this will we take? -- In the falling snow -- Lenin perched up a tree -- The European tribe -- Afterword to the Vintage Edition.

ISBN

0375707042

LCCN

^^^99048045^

OCLC

• 42641635
• SCSB-11145020

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library