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Selected Essays of Wilson Harris A.J.M. Bundy

Selected Essays of Wilson Harris By A.J.M. Bundy

Selected Essays of Wilson Harris by A.J.M. Bundy


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Best known for his novels, Harris had written fiction and non-fiction since the 1960s. This provides the most comprehensive collection of his essays, interviews and lectures from the '60s to the present. Includes a bibliography of his work.

Selected Essays of Wilson Harris Summary

Selected Essays of Wilson Harris by A.J.M. Bundy

Wilson Harris is thought of as one of the three most significant Caribbeanists in the UK, along with Derek Walcott and David Dabydeen

Wilson Harris is enjoying a Renaissance in terms of interest from postcolonial critics, students and academics

There are postgraduate courses springing up on Harris in Europe, as well as in the UK

Harris' most famous novel, The Palace of the Peacock is about to be re-released by Faber

There is no other comprehensive and up-to-date collection of Harris' essays

Andrew Bundy has provided much useful historical, bigraphical and contextual material, of value to student and general reader interested in Harris

Wilson Harris used to teach in the Black Studies department at the University of Texas, Austen, so is known for moving in academic circles as well as being a novelist

About A.J.M. Bundy

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

Table of Contents

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;

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NLS9780415195669
9780415195669
0415195667
Selected Essays of Wilson Harris by A.J.M. Bundy
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1999-01-14
304
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