The Womb of Space: The Cross-Cultural Imagination

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Bloomsbury Academic, Aug 17, 1983 - Social Science - 189 pages

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Reflections on Intruder in the Dust
3
The Schizophrenic Sea
15
Concentric Horizons
27
Copyright

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African alchemisation Anancy animal Antoinette appears Arawaks becomes Bledsoe block blood body bridge cannibal Caribbean carnival civilisation comedy complex coniunctio conscripted creative cross-cultural cultures Cyclopean dead death decadence deprivation depths descending dialogue dream eclipsed Ellison's epic epitaph exactitude fate Faulkner's fiction fissure Flanders Road Flay Flay's fossil freedom ghosts Gormenghast Gormenghast Castle Grampus harlequin heart hollow hubris human hungan Ibid imagination intuitive invisible Jack Slipper Jean Rhys Judd Komo Laura Trevelyan living marriage mask masquerading mental Merle mind mirror Muriel muse myth narrative nemesis Nightwood novel obeah obsession Odysseus paradox parallel partial Pedro Páramo perceive Poe's poem poet poetry psyche psychical Pym's rainbow re-birth re-dress realism reflection Reixach ritual Rulfo's shadow spirit Steerpike Steerpike's subtle T. S. Eliot theatre Timeless Titus Titus's Toomer's Trueblood twentieth century twinship unconscious untamable visualised Voss Voss's white goddess Wide Sargasso Sea womb of space Yurokon Zulfikar Ghose

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About the author (1983)

Wilson Harris was born Theodore Wilson Harris in New Amsterdam, Guyana on March 24, 1921. He passed the surveying examination in 1942 and worked as a land surveyor for almost 15 years. He joined a government surveying expedition into the Cuyuni River area in the north of Guyana. He moved to England in 1959. His first novel, Palace of the Peacock, was published in 1960. He wrote a total of 26 novels during his lifetime including Resurrection at Sorrow Hill, Jonestown, The Dark Jester, and The Ghost of Memory. He was knighted in 2010. He died on March 8, 2018 at the age of 96.

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TitleThe Womb of Space: The Cross-Cultural Imagination
Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets
AuthorWilson Harris
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 1983
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedFeb 27, 2008
ISBN0313237743, 9780313237744
Length189 pages
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Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General
  
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