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Title: The European Tribe by CARYL PHILLIPS ISBN: 0-375-70704-2 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Europe through the eyes of a Black Englishman
Comment: Phillips' travels, which occurred before the fall of Communism, cover Morocco, Gibralter, Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Norway, and the Soviet Union.
Any travel narrative needs a 'hook' or a theme, and Phillips' is to seek out things that he can particularly relate to, as an Englishman of Black descent. He identifies with the plight of European Jews, and in other countries he highlights encounters with local Blacks. He seems to be straining for material at times, and oddly, rarely goes out of his way to seek out the local Black community, instead relying on happenstance. Yet, as he points out, the results of the Caribbean diaspora are everywhere: Even in northern Norway, he encounters another emigrant from the English-speaking Caribbean. Norway is also the occasion where the author loses his temper due to one-too-many racist incidents, and the target of his eruption is, of all things, a Norwegian customs officer. Phillips is paranoid about the revival of fascism in Europe, but perhaps that's understandable as he recounts racist slights and insults (some quite shocking to this white reader) that occur during his travels, as well as from his life in the US and UK.
Rating: 5
Summary: My Island Man
Comment: I stumbled across "European Tribe" and decided to read it not only because it was written by someone born in my island (St.Kitts & Nevis), but because it describes places that I long to visit. Caryl Phillips uses a thought provoking style to tell of his travel around the world. As I journeyed with him I enjoyed his vivid and frank language and also his analysis of the different cultures. I also appreciate Caryl Phillips' use and revelation of historical facts and theories to tell his story. I will recommend "European Tribe" to anyone interested in a black man's expereince with various cultures of the world.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Thoughtful Analysis of European Culture
Comment: In his narrative, The European Tribe, Caryl Phillips writes about his experiences as a black British intellectual traveling mostly in Europe. He starts in Casablanca and works his way north visiting such places as Paris, Venice, and Amsterdam, finishing up in Russia before returning to England. This book was originally written in the early eighties, so Phillips is describing some places still behind the Iron Curtain. But this edition does include an afterword written in 1999. In his rational way, Phillips comments in the afterword, "Europeans are human beings. They are subject to the same insecurities, the same inability to forgive, the same prejudices, the same disturbing nationalism, the same cruelties, as any other people" (132). This is a good travelogue, but it is also an enlightening book for people whose main reading about the black experience has been from the viewpoint of African-Americans.
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Title: Platform by MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ ISBN: 0375414622 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 15 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Atlantic Sound (Vintage) by Caryl Phillips ISBN: 0375701036 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller ISBN: 0811201090 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 June, 1975 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: A New World Order: Essays by Caryl Phillips ISBN: 0375714030 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0374527075 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pub. Date: 28 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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