Hena Maes-Jelinek, The Labyrinth of Universality: Wilson Harris’s Visionary Art of Fiction

Wilson Harris is one of the “founding fathers” of Caribbean literature, a novelist generally revered by other West Indian writers and yet one which readers sometimes hesitate to explore because of his alleged obscurity. In his novels, Harris experiments with the limits of language as a means of exp...

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description Wilson Harris is one of the “founding fathers” of Caribbean literature, a novelist generally revered by other West Indian writers and yet one which readers sometimes hesitate to explore because of his alleged obscurity. In his novels, Harris experiments with the limits of language as a means of expressing “reality.” Preoccupied by the extreme polarisation of the Guyanese society in which he grew up, with the aftermath of slavery, exploitation, and the virtual eclipse of the Amerindian herita...
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