Adler,Joyce Sparer (Author), Adler,Irving (Author), and Jagan,Janet (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
106 p, Contents: Wilson Harris : the ideal of unity -- The art of Wilson Harris -- Tumatumari and the imagination of Wilson Harris -- Wilson Harris and twentieth-century man -- Melville and Harris : poetic imaginations related in their response to the modern world -- Wilson Harris's The womb of space : the cross-cultural imagination -- The evolution of female figures and imagery in Wilson Harris's novels -- Wilson Harris's cross-cultural dialogue with Melville -- Wilson Harris : an introduction
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
185 p, Contents: Pt. 1. Myth as a historical mode : Lo real maravilloso americano -- Lo real maravilloso in Caribbean fiction -- The folk imagination and history : El reino de este mundo, The secret ladder, and Le quatrième siècle -- Pt. 2. The problematic quest for origins -- The myth of El Dorado : Los pasos perdidos and Palace of the peacock -- Pt. 3. Myth and history : the dialectics of culture -- History as mythic discourse : El siglo de las luces, Tumatumari, and La case du commandeur -- The poetics of identity and difference : Black Marsden and Concierto barroco