In The Lost Child, Caryl Phillips relocates and deconstructs a number of issues regarding social identity depicted in Emily Bronte's classic novel Wuthering Heights. He illuminates the delayed effects of the 18th century British imperial politics on the racial and political assumptions of the 20th century British national ego; in short, Phillips depicts the causeeffect relationship between the guilt and home anxiety of the former colonizers and the "revenge" of people who were once the colonized subjects. This relationship can be described as t...