Selected Essays of Wilson Harris: The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination Expeditions Into Cross-Culturality; Into the Labyrinth of the Family of Ma

ISBN-13: 9780415195669 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 304 str.

Wilson Harris; Andrew Bundy

Opis

Wilson Harris, best known for his novels including The Palace of the Peacock, and Jonestown, has been writing fiction and non-fiction since the 1960s. This volume collects together a comprehensive selection of his essays, interviews and lectures, from the 1960s to the late 1990s, making available his ideas on subjects including: the cultural dynamics of language, literature and identity; the role of fable and myth in the Caribbean literary imagination; the fictional work of those including Faulkner, Jean Rhys, Ralph Ellison and Edgar Allan Poe; and religious and political legacies of writers of the postcolonial diaspora. The volume is divided into four thematic sections which parallel Harris's development as a writer and guide the reader through his work. It comes with an introduction by Andrew Bundy, providing historical and contextual details, and a full bibliography of Harris's work.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1 The Archetypal Fiction; Chapter 1 The Music of Living Landscapes; Chapter 2 Letter From Francisco Bone To W.H.; Chapter 3 New Preface to Palace of the Peacock; Chapter 4 Merlin and Parsifal; Part 2 Cross-Cultural Community and the Womb of Space; Chapter 5 Literacy and the Imagination—A Talk; Chapter 6 Reflections On Intruder in the Dust in A Cross-Cultural Complex; Chapter 7 The Schizophrenic Sea; Chapter 8 Concentric Horizons; Chapter 9 Jean Rhys's ‘Tree of Life’; Chapter 10 ‘Benito Cereno’; Part 3 The Root of Epic; Chapter 11 Tradition and the West Indian Novel; Chapter 12 History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas; Chapter 13 The Amerindian Legacy; Chapter 14 Continuity and Discontinuity; Chapter 15 Quetzalcoatl and the Smoking Mirror: Reflections on Originality and Tradition; Part 4 Unfinished Genesis; Chapter 16 Profiles of Myth and the New World; Chapter 17 In the Name of Liberty; Chapter 18 Aubrey Williams; Chapter 19 Apprenticeship to the Furies; Chapter 20 Creoleness: the Crossroads of a Civilization?; Chapter 21 The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination;

O autorze

A.J.M. Bundy is in the Department of English at the Cultural Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University.