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outsiders have always contributed, but in which they are finally begin-
ning to belong.
 The essays from A New World Order form a whole with the rest of
Phillips' writings in their restless search for home and belonging. In
the last essay, it becomes apparent that while Phillips may not be ready
to settle on any of the four locales that he has explored, his wandering
has helped him produce a place he can belong, the metaphorical home
of his writing, but also the "real" imagined home of the Black Atlantic:

 After thirteen years of compulsive itinerancy, I know my Atlantic
 'home' to be triangular in shape with Britain at one apex, the west
 coast of Africa at another, and the new world of North America
 (including the Caribbean) forming the third point of the triangle.. .there
 will never be any closure to this conundrum of 'home'...I have chosen
 to create for myself an imaginary 'home' to live alongside the one
 that I am incapable of fully trusting. My increasingly precarious,
 imaginary, Atlantic world (305, 308).

 This is the realization that earlier generations of artists like DuBois,
Wright, Baldwin, and Gaye could not reach; fleeing the United States to
take up dwelling in Europe or Africa could never fulfill the longing for
home and belonging that life as an African-American had created. There is
a home for Caryl Phillips, albeit a contingent, imaginary, impossible one.
 The lesson of A New World Order is that we must create our homes
in an increasingly, and often uncomfortably, interconnected world:

 The New World. A twenty-first-century world...The old static order in
 which one people speaks down to another, lesser, people is dead.
 The colonial, or postcolonial, model has collapsed. In its place we
 have a new world order in which there will soon be one global
 conversation with limited participation open to all, and full
 participation available to no one. In this new world order nobody will
 feel fully at home (5).

This is the disordered new order that Phillips announces, a leveling
web so unlike the hierarchical and heavily policed new world order
the United States government continues to try to impose. It is a world
order which takes the New World as its inspiration, and the Caribbean
as its model:

 it could be argued that the synthesising new world vision of the
 Caribbean provides the perfect model for the age in which we live. An