关键词: 卡里尔·菲利普斯, 《落雪中》, 后殖民批评视角, 文化身份

Abstract: Caryl Phillips is one of the famous black immigrant writers in contemporary Britain. His representative novel In the Falling Snow describes the identity crisis of Caribbean immigrants in England, as well as their cultural identity and the pursuit for home. The novel not only reproduces the cultural dilemma faced by black British immigrants. More importantly, it also reflects the writers pondering over the way for diaspora ethnic groups to maintain their cultural identity. By analyzing black immigrants and their descendants sense of loss and of belonging nowhere in culture from the post-colonial perspective, it is revealed that only by identifying their own national culture can they succeed in establishing their cultural identities.

Key words: Caryl Phillips, In the Falling Snow, a post-colonial perspective, search for identity and home