Wilson Harris, best known for his novels which include The Palace of the Peacock, and Jonestown, has been writing fiction and non-fiction since the 1960s. This volume collects together a selection of his essays, interviews and lectures, from the 1960s to the present, 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...

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...