Theatre of the Arts

Wilson Harris and the Caribbean
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-420-1410-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 60, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

This volume celebrates Wilson Harris’s eightieth birthday and more than fifty years of creative writing. The most original and profound writer of the Caribbean, he has revolutionized the art of fiction and its language. He has himself contributed to this volume, and several Caribbean writers of a younger generation – Cyril Dabydeen, Fred D’Aguiar, Andrew Jefferson-Miles, Mark McWatt, Caryl Phillips, Lawrence Scott – pay tribute here to his genius.
The essays are by critics from the Caribbean, Britain, the United States and continental Europe who have long admired and explored his work. They cover the various genres of Harris’s writing, his poetry, fiction and criticism, and deal with major aspects of his work, bringing out its relevance to the contemporary context of violence in the world, its modernity, and its contribution to the renewal of the humanities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Maes-Jelinek, Hena

Ledent, Bénédicte

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.
Hena MAES-JELINEK: Introduction: Approaching Wilson Harris’s Creativity
Wilson HARRIS: Theatre of the Arts
Fred D’AGUIAR: Love for the Vanished: Wilson Harris on Love
Cyril DABYDEEN: On Knowing Wilson Harris
Cyril DABYDEEN:Amerindians
Lawrence SCOTT: Poems (Last August; Mayaro; Hingwan Style; Afterthought)
Caryl PHILLIPS: Wilson Harris
Caryl PHILLIPS: The Gift of Displacement
Peter STUMMER: For Wilson Harris on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday
Gordon COLLIER: Revisiting Eternity to Season
Paula BURNETT: Opening New Doors: A Glimpse of Wilson Harris and Derek Walcott
Jean-Pierre DURIX: Origins in Palace of the Peacock
Louis JAMES: Fenwick’s Log: Reading the “Text of Landscape” in The Secret Ladder
Mary Lou EMERY: The Poetics of Vision in Wilson Harris’s Writing
Mark McWATT: “Omens of Humanity”: World Texts and Contexts in Wilson Harris’s Critical Writings
Vera M. KUTZINSKI: Wilson Harris’s Phantom Bodies: Re-Reading the Subject
Michael MITCHELL: The Magus at Angel Inn
Stuart MURRAY: Wilson Harris in his Essays at the End of the Millennium: Time, Countertime, Writing
Andrew JEFFERSON-MILES: Quantum Value in Wilson Harris’s “architecture of the tides”
Dominique DUBOIS: The Redemptive Power of Bone’s Revisionary Fiction
Samuel DURRANT: Coming Home “upon threads of desolation”: The Reversal of Prophecy in Wilson Harris’s The Dark Jester
Hena MAES-JELINEK: “Unimaginable imaginer”: The Dark Jester
Round Table
Wilson Harris and Fred D’Aguiar in conversation with Gordon Rohlehr
Contributors
List of Participants