Selected Essays of Wilson Harris

Best known for his novels, Harris had written fiction and non-fiction since the 1960s. This provides the most comprehensive collection of his essays, interviews and lectures from the '60s to the present. Includes a bibliography of his work.

Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century. His novels date from The Palace of the Peacock to Jonestown . This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his critical writings, from 1961 to the present day. Selected Essays of Wilson Harris brings together twenty-one lectures, addresses and essays to make available Harris's full range of writings on subjects including: * the literate imagination * traditions of myth and fable in Central and South America * the North American literary imagination, from Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville and Ralph Ellison, to William Faulkner and Jean Rhys * inheritances and legacies of writers of the postcolonial diaspora This comprehensive collection also comes complete with: * an extensive editorial introduction, providing valuable historical and theoretical context for the essays * a map of Guyana * bibliographies of Harris's fiction and non-fiction * appendices on the legends of El Dorado and the Holy Grail.

Introduction; Part 1 The Archetypal Fiction; Chapter 1 The Music of Living Landscapes; Chapter 2 Letter From Francisco Bone To W.H.; Chapter 3 New Preface to Palace of the Peacock; Chapter 4 Merlin and Parsifal; Part 2 Cross-Cultural Community and the Womb of Space; Chapter 5 Literacy and the Imagination-A Talk; Chapter 6 Reflections On Intruder in the Dust in A Cross-Cultural Complex; Chapter 7 The Schizophrenic Sea; Chapter 8 Concentric Horizons; Chapter 9 Jean Rhys's 'Tree of Life'; Chapter 10 'Benito Cereno'; Part 3 The Root of Epic; Chapter 11 Tradition and the West Indian Novel; Chapter 12 History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas; Chapter 13 The Amerindian Legacy; Chapter 14 Continuity and Discontinuity; Chapter 15 Quetzalcoatl and the Smoking Mirror: Reflections on Originality and Tradition; Part 4 Unfinished Genesis; Chapter 16 Profiles of Myth and the New World; Chapter 17 In the Name of Liberty; Chapter 18 Aubrey Williams; Chapter 19 Apprenticeship to the Furies; Chapter 20 Creoleness: the Crossroads of a Civilization?; Chapter 21 The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination;