JOURNAL
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CARIBBEAN
LITERATURES
VOLUME2 NUMBER 1.2. And 3
Letter from the Editor
Maurice A.Lee ...... . . ... 1
ESSAYS
OuvertureHena Maes-Jelinek ... 6
The Age of The lma.gi11ation
Wilson Harris... ..... . ... 17 Aubrey Williams
Wilson Harris .............. ...... 26 El Dorado and the Grail Legend: A Memorandum 011 T winship in
'Body of CivJisation'
Andrew Bundy ...... 31 Vocabularies of Protest and Resistance: The Early Worl~ of WJson
Harris and Martin Carter
Gemma Robinson ... 36 •"fhe Closeness of Profound Curiosity': The Parallel Visions of
Wilson Harris and Denis WJliarns
Louis James ... 47 Surveying Wilson Harris' Cosmopolitical lmagi-Nation: The Guyana
Quartet's Postnational, Postcolonial Revision of T..S. Elliot's Four Quartets
Robert Bennett ...
54
T11e Politics and Performance of Ecstasy in Wilson Harris' WritingMary Lou Emery ... 66 Framing the Political: Self and Politics in WJson Harris
Paget Henry ... 82 Harris the Myth-Maher
Arturo Cauaneo ........... ...... : ... 96
Wilson Harris on the Frontiers of Myth-Criticism, 197 8-1983
Russell McDougall... ... . ... 109 Catapult: to Healing Dreaming: Rending Wilson Hnrris Outside his
Worb
Francine Juhasz Howman. . ... 122
The Creative MinJ and the Rewriting of History in Wilson Harris' the Tree of t/1e Sun
Dominique Dubois ... ...... .. .. ... 134
Realism nnd Reversibility in Wilson Harris' Cnrnival
Vera M. Kutzinski .. ... ... ... ... .. ... . . ... 147
The Seigniory of Faust: Gnostic Scenery in The fnh.nitc Re/1ersc1/
Michael Mitchell ..... ...... 168 When Graves are Broben up Again 'Relics' of John Donne's Poetry in the
Carnival Trilogy: Wilson Harris Reopens tl1e Grave of History
Karen Corne/is ..... ..... 179 'The Mind of Fiction': Questions of Theory and Reading in Wilson Harris'
Essays
Brigitta Olubas ... 187
The Joys of Happy Eclecticism?: Teaching Wilson Harris
Stuart Murray ................................ ....... 198 Selected Essays of Wilson Harris: The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination Editied by Andrew Bundy {London & New Yori~: Routledge, 1999) ix
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292pp Stuart Murray....... . . . . .. . . .... .. . ... ... .. . . . ... .. .... ... ... .. . . ... . .. . .. . . ... 204 \Vriting, Reading and Altered Consciousness In ]oneslownLouis Simon ...... 207 Memory Tl1eatre and tl1e Maya: Othering Eschatology in \ViJson Harris'
]onestown
Paula Burnell ... 215 Goddesses, Ghosts and Translatability in Wilson Harris' Jonestown
Stephanos Stephan ides ..... 233
Journal of Caribbean Literatures 2.1&2&3 (2000), special issue on Wilson Harris, guest edited by Hena Maes-Jelinek.
Cryptic Chaosmos in Wilson Harris' Jones/own
Carmen Concilio . ... ... .. . . .. . . .. .. .. . . ... . ... . . ... ... . ... . . .... .. . .. .. .. .. . ... . ... .. .. .. . .. . . .. ... ... .. 242
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WJson Harris "Opera" Projectb
y
Tone BrulinJoris Duytschaever ........ ...... 253
CONVERSATION
A Conversation witb Wilson Harris
Monica Passi ...... .... 260
POETRY
Eye on the Scarecrow
Nathaniel Mackey ... .... 272 WJson Harris
Fred D 'Aguiar ... ..... . ······ 275 Seven Fragments of Glass From the Observator of Merlin the
Enchanter: A Gloss of the Esplumeoir
Andrew Bundy ...... ...... . ... ... 278