Double Yoke: An Exposition of the Harassement of the Blacks in the wake of World Wars and Colonialism in Caryl Phillips’ A Distant Shore

Abstract

Caryl Phillips is a prolific writer whose works depict cultural dynamics and their repercussions in a colonised environment. He tries to unravel black people’s diasporic experiences in Africa, the Caribbean, and England.Thisarticle examines Caryl Phillips’ novel A Distant Shore (2003) through the lens of diasporic migration and heterogeneity. Migrant and refugee resentment has increased as a result of migration from developing to developed countries. While xenophobia is still prevalent in developed countries, it is also becoming more prevalent in developing countries. Xenophobia will continue to undermine migrants’ rights and stymie efforts to maximise the development potential of migration. The themes in A Distant Shore are similar to those in Phillips’ previous novels. On the other hand, he directly addresses the British nation and the problems that it has with immigration.Hethus shows what is going wrong in Britain today. The novel’s two protagonists can be seen as people who have to deal with the ramifications of Britain’s demise, as well as the legacy of slavery in modern society. how Dorothy feels about being abandoned, and how Solomon, the other key character, deals with the hardships and persecution that immigrants confront in Britain. Hegemonic barriers are breached through migration under Phillips’ vision of the ‘new world order,’ allowing for negotiation and interaction between diverse cultures. The research looks at how Caryl Phillips’ displaced protagonists in the imperial metropolis come to rethink their identity in terms of their diasporic black British experience in his novels.