Writing and the Other Arts in Wilson Harris’s Fiction
The nature of imagination and its capacity to stimulate remedies for the evils of the contemporary world are central to Wilson Harris’s writing. Yet the theme of a conference on his work entitled ‘Imagination Global Imagine’ left me at first in some perplexity, so negative are now the connotations...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Zusammenfassung: | The nature of imagination and its capacity to stimulate remedies for the evils of the contemporary world are central to Wilson Harris’s writing. Yet the theme of a conference on his work entitled ‘Imagination Global Imagine’ left me at first in some perplexity, so negative are now the connotations of the word ‘global’, whether in politics, the economy or culture, and suggestive of the ‘coat of uniformity’ Harris frequently criticizes. Then I realized that it was as ambivalent as his use of t... |
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