1st Edition

Selected Essays of Wilson Harris

Edited By A.J.M. Bundy Copyright 1999
    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century. His novels date from The Palace of the Peacock to Jonestown . This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his critical writings, from 1961 to the present day. Selected Essays of Wilson Harris brings together twenty-one lectures, addresses and essays to make available Harris's full range of writings on subjects including: * the literate imagination * traditions of myth and fable in Central and South America * the North American literary imagination, from Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville and Ralph Ellison, to William Faulkner and Jean Rhys * inheritances and legacies of writers of the postcolonial diaspora This comprehensive collection also comes complete with: * an extensive editorial introduction, providing valuable historical and theoretical context for the essays * a map of Guyana * bibliographies of Harris's fiction and non-fiction * appendices on the legends of El Dorado and the Holy Grail.

    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;

    Biography

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