Black Writers: Zadie Smith and Caryl Phillips

[@LisaKinnard]

that's a lot of brilliance in one discussion...my goodness!

[@ambraguarnieri3814]

Superb speakers! Although questions from the public were so stifle and trite!

[@aname82]

Caryl Phillips is brilliant, I wish to meet him one day.

[@MrInterestingthings]

Writing is for reminding us of the truth! ...as the body enlarges the vocabulary decreases ..."The last minute he can be genial in this city"...fat and poor helps others put perspective on their situation" Phillips" work is indeed important . I'm amazed he has films ,Yale teaching . Sadies Smith's White Teeth sits on my bookshelf . Why haven't I read more of it than I have so good to hear her read her work here !

[@cs6078]

Love the way she wires....so fluid.

[@notcosteffective9920]

What does that mean

[@simplynoelle6945]

1h15 ... Those words make the world a better place : « I don't write for black people, I don't write for white people. I write for myself and I hope I'm lucky enough to get a readership that's as wide as possible. Boundaries of race, nationality, gender … I don't care, I just want as wide a readership as possible. (...). Those of us who've grown up, or who've had some relationship with the Caribbean, who've had a Caribbean parent in the house or who (uhm) … the question of cultural hybridity and crossing boundaries and transgressions are so deeply rooted in the Caribbean. We are all hugely and beautifully impure. We cannot find purity. When I hear the word 'purity', I want to run for the hills. Growing up in the Caribbean, having a Caribbean background, breeds into you a healthiness towards all these questions. Border crossings, transgressions are part of the Caribbean heritage. I just think Europe and North America need to just wake up and smell the coffee a bit. »

[@MrInterestingthings]

What you too are writing here is wonderful ..."transgressions are part of the Caribbean heritage ...

[@sftaxitaxi1334]

Stay black & proud; let's the skills speak for you.

[@MrInterestingthings]

Wow. In the homes where religious notions are passe ,outre and irrelevant it becomes a fetish of historical weight and interest: an oddity and this is how Zadie's siblings came to revere religious passion. Indeed like Napoleon's cartographer it is a gross irrelevance to me .

[@amonduul2154]

Smith is a british/carrebean author, not a black author. In Africa or Carrebean everybody would see her as a spanish or sizilian or tunesian.

[@MrInterestingthings]

What is it you really are trying to say ? Everyone in the west sees her as a writer of color and that matters .@57th minute she says I am black. I am a black writer.she repeats this a minute later.(not)otherness...but in defense of everybody as a subject.I see myself as a feminist first then a black feminist. " This is important and will remain important till the White entitlement is unempowered. You could say the same about Derek Walcott. Honey anything not European is Black . we are most of the world but of course noone wants to believe that because it immediately transfers the reality/notion of raping culturallythe whole of the planet:exclusion .