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    New Ways of Identification: Black Diaspora and Memory in Caryl Phillips's In the Falling Snow
    (2023) Kirpikli, Deniz; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0330-593X; HIZ-6637-2022
    As a second-generation immigrant author Caryl Phillips often depicts the distress of black British people of Afro-Caribbean descent in Britain in his works. His novel In the Falling Snow, published in 2009, illustrates the evolution of the notion of black Britishness through the memory of the post-war generation and more recent transcultural connections. A network of transcultural connections involving the black diaspora and the immigrants from Eastern Europe characterize contemporary England described in the novel. This article argues that the novel gestures towards a more inclusive society through transcultural memory that moves across generations and different immigrant communities. The experience of Eastern Europeans as immigrants echoes the memories of the post-war generation and opens up a space to discuss post-racial possibilities. Thus, the novel provides a perspective to observe the transmission of memory over a couple of decades and the role of migration as a site of transcultural memory.
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    Transcultural Memory of the Nation in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore
    (2022) Kirpikli, Deniz; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0330-593X
    This study argues that Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore (2003) uncovers Britain's transcultural memory of the imperial past through the journey of the refugee protagonist Solomon/Gabriel from Africa to England. The unlikely encounter between Solomon/Gabriel and Dorothy, a white Englishwoman, in a setting inhospitable to both of them opens up a narrative space to explore the imperial legacy that persists in contemporary racism in Britain. The novel achieves this through a mnemonic narrative strategy based on a fragmented structure with a narrative voice shifting back and forth in time and place. In doing so, the novel contests the idea of the homogeneous nation by drawing parallels between the Middle Passage and refugee flow from Africa. This study will, thus, demonstrate that the novel offers a transcultural perspective on memory and nation by illustrating the cross-border reach of memories that are ignored by national essentialism.