African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
149 p, "This interdisciplinary study combines concepts of symbolic anthropology with traditional literary criticism to survey six novels by the Caribbean authors George Lamming and Wilson Harris." (Publisher)
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
377 p., Examines the representation of history in the Caribbean novel during the era of decolonization. Exploring the period from the 1930s to the 1970s, primarily in Trinidad, Barbados and Guyana, the author argues that the predominance of historical thinking in many of the exemplary novels and works of the time was not only a response to the denial by colonialism of the history of Caribbean peoples. Such prevalence was also to be found in new class relations, which began to appear during the inaugural moment of decolonization in the 1930s when, throughout the British Caribbean, popular rebellions effectively meant the end of colonial rule.
