ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |31 pages
Introduction
part |32 pages
The Archetypal Fiction
chapter |7 pages
The Music of Living Landscapes
chapter |5 pages
Letter From Francisco Bone To W.H.
chapter |4 pages
New Preface to Palace of the Peacock
part |64 pages
Cross-Cultural Community and the Womb of Space
chapter |13 pages
Literacy and the Imagination—A Talk
chapter |8 pages
Reflections On Intruder in the Dust in A Cross-Cultural Complex
chapter |9 pages
The Schizophrenic Sea
chapter |8 pages
Concentric Horizons
chapter |5 pages
Jean Rhys's ‘Tree of Life'
chapter |10 pages
‘Benito Cereno'
part |58 pages
The Root of Epic
chapter |11 pages
Tradition and the West Indian Novel
chapter |14 pages
History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas
chapter |8 pages
The Amerindian Legacy
chapter |8 pages
Continuity and Discontinuity
part |60 pages
Unfinished Genesis