ABSTRACT
In “Isolated Spaces, Fragmented Places: Caryl Phillips’s Ghettoes in The Nature of Blood and The European Tribe,” Murat Öner offers a geocritical reading of Caryl Phillips’s deviant Othello character (in The Nature of Blood), examining his transformation in, and perception of, the ghettoized space of Venice. At the same time, they explore real-and-fictional space of Venice in The European Tribe (a non-fictional work), pointing out the ways that the St. Kitts-born writer depicts the singular space of the ghetto. Using the interdisciplinary methods of geocriticism to analyse the continuously changing spatial relations and unseen power relations in these texts, Öner explore the space of the “ghetto” in these works, disclosing a map of Venice in the explicit and implicit references, allusions, and connotations in The Nature of Blood and The European Tribe.
