The labyrinth of universality : Wilson Harris's visionary art of fiction / / Hena Maes-Jelinek |
Autore | Maes-Jelinek Hena |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (591 p.) |
Disciplina | 823.914 |
Collana | Cross/cultures |
Soggetto topico | Postcolonialism in literature |
ISBN |
94-012-0321-0
1-4294-5703-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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 Painting -- 13 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 Creation -- 22 "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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817341903321 |
Maes-Jelinek Hena | ||
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Postcolonial narrative and the work of mourning [[electronic resource] ] : J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison / / Sam Durrant |
Autore | Durrant Sam <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (153 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.5409358 |
Collana | SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies |
Soggetto topico |
Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century
African Americans in literature Postcolonialism in literature Apartheid in literature Slavery in literature Black people in literature Grief in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-7914-8575-7
1-4237-3932-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452137103321 |
Durrant Sam <1970-> | ||
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Postcolonial narrative and the work of mourning [[electronic resource] ] : J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison / / Sam Durrant |
Autore | Durrant Sam <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (153 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.5409358 |
Collana | SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies |
Soggetto topico |
Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century
African Americans in literature Postcolonialism in literature Apartheid in literature Slavery in literature Black people in literature Grief in literature |
ISBN |
0-7914-8575-7
1-4237-3932-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777670303321 |
Durrant Sam <1970-> | ||
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Postcolonial narrative and the work of mourning : J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison / / Sam Durrant |
Autore | Durrant Sam <1970-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (153 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.5409358 |
Collana | SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies |
Soggetto topico |
Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century
African Americans in literature Postcolonialism in literature Apartheid in literature Slavery in literature Blacks in literature Grief in literature |
ISBN |
0-7914-8575-7
1-4237-3932-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Specters of Colonialism -- 1. Speechless before Apartheid: J. M. Coetzee's Inconsolable Works of Mourning -- 2. Rites of Communion: Wilson Harris's Hosting of History -- 3. Keeping It in the Family: Passing on Racial Memory in the Novels of Toni Morrison -- CONCLUSION: Some Kind of Community -- Notes -- Introduction. Specters of Colonialism -- 1. Speechless before Apartheid -- 2. Rites of Communion -- 3. Keeping It in the Family -- Conclusion. Some Kind of Community -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Y -- Z. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807691203321 |
Durrant Sam <1970-> | ||
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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