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Author Maes-Jelinek, Hena.

Title The labyrinth of universality : Wilson Harris's visionary art of fiction / Hena Maes-Jelinek.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 564 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Cross/cultures, 0924-1426 ; 86
Cross/cultures ; 86. 0924-1426
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-564).
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Contents Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Myth of El Dorado in the Caribbean Novel; 2. The Writer as Alchemist: The Unifying Role of the Imagination; 3. Palace of the Peacock; 4. The Far Journey of Oudin: A Naked Particle of Freedom; 5. The Whole Armour: A Compassionate Alliance; 6. The Secret Ladder: The Immaterial Constitution; 7. Heartland: Between Two Worlds; 8. The Eye of the Scarecrow; 9. The Waiting Room: A Primordial Species of Fiction; 10. Tumatumari: An Epic of Ancestors; 11. Ascent to Omai.
12. From The Sleepers of Roraima to The Angel at the Gate: The Novel as Painting13. Da Silva da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness: "Inimitable Painting"; 14. The Tree of the Sun and Resurrection: Faces on the Canvas; 15. Carnival and Creativity; 16. Carnival and J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country: Ambivalent Clio; 17. The Infinite Rehearsal; 18. The Four Banks of the River of Space: Unfinished Genesis; 19. Carnival, The Infinite Rehearsal, and The Four Banks of the River of Space: Ulyssean Carnival of Epic Metamorphoses; 20. Resurrection at Sorrow Hill: Charting the Uncapturable.
21. Obscure Sorrow Hill: Seminal Ground of Endless Creation22. "Tricksters of Heaven": Visions of Holocaust in Jonestown and Fred D'Aguiar's Bill of Rights; 23. The Dark Jester: "Unimaginable Imaginer"; 24. The Mask of the Beggar: Transfigurative Art; 25. The Ghost of Memory: A Meditation on the Nature of Art; 26. "Latent Cross-Culturalities" in Harris and Soyinka: Their Creative Alternative to Theory; 27. Ut Musica Poesis; 28. Writing and the Other Arts; 29. Wilson Harris's Multi-Faceted and Dynamic Perception of the Imaginary.
30. "Numinous Proportions": Wilson Harris's Alternative to All 'Posts'Conclusion: Straight Lines and Arabesques; Bibliography of Works Cited.
Summary Wilson Harris, many times nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a British writer of Guyanese origin, one of the most original novelists and critics of the twentieth century, and probably the first to use and interpret the aesthetically fruitful notion of cross-culturalism. Harris's insights into the profound symbiosis between history, culture and artistic expression were initially inspired by his encounters with Amerindians in the Guyanese rainforest interior, where he led many surveying expeditions. These encounters aroused his interest in pre-Columbian peoples, who figure prominent.
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Subject Harris, Wilson -- Criticism and interpretation.
Harris, Wilson.
Criticism and interpretation.
Harris, Wilson -- Criticism and interpretation.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Guyana -- In literature.
Guyana.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Maes-Jelinek, Hena. Labyrinth of universality. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2006 9042020326 9789042020320 (OCoLC)70677644
ISBN 9781429457033 (electronic book)
1429457031 (electronic book)
9789401203210
9401203210
9042020326 (hardbound)
9789042020320 (hardbound)