Early Writing Kyk-Over-Al

Poems

Fiction

Extracts from novels

Interviews

Essays

Translations

Early Writing Kyk-Over-Al

Contributions to Kyk-Over-Al: 1945-61. This bibliography of Wilson Harris's early writing was compiled by Reinhard W. Sander and was published in Hena Maes-Jelinek, ed., Commonwealth Literature and the Modern World (Brussels: Didier, 1975), pp. 175-176; rpt. in Hena Maes-Jelinek, Wilson Harris (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982), pp. 180-181. 'Tell Me Trees! What Are You Whispering?' (Poem), 1 (Dec. 1945), p. 10. Also 19 (Year-end 1954), pp. 91-92. 'Tomorrow' (Fiction), 1 (Dec. 1945), pp. 30-34. 'Savannah Lands' (Poem), 2 (June 1946), p. 8. Also 19 (Year-end 1954), p. 76. 'Words Written Before Sunset' (Poem), 3 (Dec. 1946), p. 9. 'Studies in Realism' (Poems), 4 (June 1947), pp. 7-8. 'Fences Upon the Earth' (Fiction), 4 (June 1947), pp. 20-21. 'Quiet's Event' (Poem), 5 (Dec. 1947), p. 8. 'Green Is the Colour of the World' (Poem), 6 (June 1948), pp. 7-8. 'The Guiana Book by A.J. Seymour' (Review), 7 (Dec. 1948), pp. 37-40. 'In Memoriam 1948' (Poem), 7 (Dec. 1948), p. 6. 'Spring Equinox' (Poem), 8 (June 1949), pp. 5-6. 'Palace of the Stillborn' (Poem), 9 (Dec. 1949), p. 19. 'The Reality of Trespass' (Non-fiction), 9 (Dec. 1949), pp. 21-22. 'Review' (On Denis Williams's Paintings), 9 (Dec. 1949), p. 32. 'Art and Criticism' (Non-fiction), 13 (Year-end 1951), pp. 202-205. 'Orpheus' (Poem), 14 (Mid-year 1952), p. 38. 'Other Dimensions' (Poem), 14 (Mid-year 1952), p. 39. 'The Question of Form and Realism in the West Indian Artist' (Non-fiction), 15 (Year-end 1952), pp. 23-27; rpt. in Tradition, the Writer and Society. 'The Fabulous Well' (Poems), 15 (Year-end 1952), pp. 48-55. 'The Beggar is King' (Poems), 16 (Mid-year 1953), pp. 148-151. 'Bim No. 17 (Vol. 5, No. 17, Dec., 1952)' (Review), 16 (Mid-year 1953), pp. 195-198. 'The Spirit of Place' (Poems), 17 (Year-end 1953), pp. 228-234. 'Bouquet for Burrowes' (Non-fiction), 18 (Mid-year 1954), pp. 8-9. 'Banim Creek' (Extract from an unpublished novel), 18 (Mid-year 1954), pp. 36-42. 'These Are the Words of an Old Man' (Poem), 19 (Year-end 1954), p. 117. 'The Chorus' (Poem), 19 (Year-end 1954), pp. 128-129. 'The Sun (Fourteen Poems in a Cycle)', 20 (Mid-year 1955), pp. 175-182. 'Two Periods in the Work of a West Indian Artist' (On Denis Williams's Paintings), 20 (Mid-year 1955), pp. 183-187. 'Poems by Leo I. Austin' (Review), 20 (Mid-year 1955), pp. 205-206. 'The Death of Hector, Tamer of Horses' (Poem), 22 (1957), pp. 23-24. 'The Stone of the Sea' (Poem), 22 (1957), pp. 24-25. 'Charcoal' (Poem), 22 (1957), p. 25. Also in Paula Burnett, ed., The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986), p. 185. 'Troy' (Poem), 22 (1957), pp. 26-27. 'Sun Poem XV' (Poem), 23 (May 1958), p. 7. Also in New World (Guyana Independence Issue, 1966), p. 54. 'Greatness and Bitterness' (Letter to A.J. Seymour), 23 (May 1958), pp. 23. 'Spirit of the Sea Wall' (Fiction), 28 (Dec. 1961), pp. 181-183. 'Laocoon', from Eternity to Season, in Paula Burnett, ed., The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986), pp. 185-186. A. J. Seymour, the editor of Kyk-Over-Al, reprinted some of Harris's early contributions in vol. 33-34 (April 1986). These include the following poems: 'Agamemnon', pp. 30-31; 'The Death of Hector, Tamer of Horses', pp. 31-32; 'The Stone of the Sea (Ulysses to Calypso)', p. 32; 'Charcoal (epilogue to the Senses: the Heart', p. 33; 'Troy', pp. 33-35, as well as the short story 'Fences upon the Earth', pp. 86-89.

Poems

Fetish (Guyana: Miniature Poets Series, 1951). Eternity to Season (Georgetown: published privately, 1954; rpt. London: New Beacon Books, 1978). Also in Jose Antonio Jarvis, George Campbell, Basil McFarlane, R.L.C. McFarlane, John Figueroa, Peter Blackman, Wilson Harris (St Thomas, Virgin Islands: The Art Shop, 1970). 'The Muse on the Trail', New World (Guyana Independence Issue, 1966) p. 45. 'The Winter Christ', Three Poems, Temenos Academy Review, 2 (Spring 1999), pp. 46-49.

Fiction

The Guiana Quartet Palace of the Peacock (London: Faber and Faber, 1960). Palace of the Peacock (London: Faber and Faber; 1968). Paperback edition with a preface by Kenneth Ramchand. Palace of the Peacock (London: Faber and Faber; 1988). Paperback edition with the author's amended 'Note on the Genesis of The Guyana Quartet'. Palace of the Peacock (London: Faber and Faber; 1998). Faber Caribbean Series, with a new note by the author and an essay by Kenneth Ramchand. The Far Journey of Oudin (London: Faber and Faber, 1961). The Whole Armour (London: Faber and Faber, 1962). The Secret Ladder (London: Faber and Faber, 1963); rpt. with minor changes in the 1985 edition of The Guyana Quartet (see below). The Whole Armour and The Secret Ladder; rpt. in one volume with an 'Author's Note' (London: Faber and Faber, 1973). The Guyana Quartet with a 'Note on the Genesis of The Guyana Quartet' (London: Faber and Faber; first published in this edition in 1985). Heartland (London: Faber and Faber, 1964). 'Kanaima', in Black Orpheus, Anthology (Ibadan, 1964); rpt. In Kenneth Ramchand, ed., West Indian Narrative (London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 196-205; in Anna Rutherford and Donald Hannah, eds., Commonwealth Short Stories (London: Edward Arnold, 1971); pp. 106-115; in Livingston, James, T., ed. Caribbean Rhythms.The Emerging Literature of the West Indies (New York: Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, 1974), pp. 99-107; in Charles H. Rowell, Ancestral House. The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe (Harper/Collins, 1995), pp. 256-261; in Victor Ramraj, ed., Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 1994), pp. 145-151. The Eye of the Scarecrow (London: Faber and Faber, 1965). The Waiting Room (London: Faber and Faber, 1967). Tumatumari (London: Faber and Faber, 1968). Ascent to Omai (London: Faber and Faber, 1970). The Sleepers of Roraima, A Carib Trilogy (London: Faber and Faber, 1970). The Age of the Rainmakers (London: Faber and Faber, 1971). Black Marsden (London: Faber and Faber, 1972). Companions of the Day and Night (London: Faber and Faber, 1975). Da Silva da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness and Genesis of the Clowns (London: Faber and Faber, 1977). The Tree of the Sun (London: Faber and Faber, 1978). The Angel at the Gate (London: Faber and Faber, 1982). Carnival (London: Faber and Faber, 1985). The Infinite Rehearsal (London: Faber and Faber, 1987). The Four Banks of the River of Space (London: Faber and Faber, 1990). The Carnival Trilogy (London: Faber and Faber; first published in this edition in 1993). With an introduction by the author, pp. vii-xix. Resurrection at Sorrow Hill (London: Faber and Faber, 1993). Jonestown (London: Faber and Faber, 1996). The Dark Jester (London: Faber and Faber, 2001). 'Yurokon', in Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, ed. Nalo Hopkinson (Montpelier, Vermont: Invisible Cities Press, 2000), pp. 22-37. The Mask of the Beggar (London: Faber and Faber, 2003). The Ghost of Memory (London: Faber and Faber, 2006).

Extracts from Novels

'The Covenant', in Andrew Salkey, ed., West Indian Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 1960), pp. 135-143. 'Raven's Head', Black Orpheus, 16 (October 1964), pp. 4-10. 'The Far Journey of Oudin', in George Lamming and Martin Carter, eds., New World (Guyana Independence Issue, 1966) pp. 89-92. 'From Palace of the Peacock and The Secret Ladder', in Dathorne, O.R., ed., Caribbean Narrative (London: Heinemann, 1966), pp. 61-81. 'The Waiting Room', Black Orpheus, 19 (March 1966), pp. 24-44. 'Extract from a Story', Ariel, 1, 1 (January 1970), pp. 43-45. 'Dark Rumour', in A.J. Seymour, ed., New Writing in the Caribbean, Guyana Lithographic Co., 1972, pp. 213-218. 'Genesis of the Clowns', Commonwealth, Essays and Studies, Vol. 1 (1974), pp. 57-61 'Genesis of the Clowns', Review, 16 (Winter 1975), pp. 69-74. 'Da Silva da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness', in Carifesta Forum (Jamaica: Institute of Jamaica, 1976), pp. 169-176. 'Companions of the Day and Night', Hambone, 3 (Fall 1983), pp. 24-34. 'Black Marsden', Hambone, 5 (Fall 1985), pp. 110-129. 'The Angel at the Gate', Hambone, 6 (Fall 1986), pp. 129-142. 'The Four Banks of the River of Space', Temenos, 10 (1989), pp. 54-60. Resurrection at Sorrow Hill. Excerpt from a Novel in Progress, Callaloo, 15, 4 (Fall 1992), pp. 899-902. 'From Jonestown (Imagination Dead Imagine)', Callaloo, 18, 1 (Winter 1995), pp. 5-12. 'Jonestown', CARIBANA, 5 (1996), pp. 7-18. From Palace of the Peacock, in John Thieme, ed., The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (London: Arnold, 1996), pp. 524-532. 'Extract from Jonestown', in Marc Delrez and Bénédicte Ledent, eds., The Contact and the Culmination. Essays in Honour of Hena Maes-Jelinek (Liège: L3 Liège Language and Literature, English Department, University of Liège, 1996), pp. 9-16. 'From Jonestown,' The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 17, 2 (Summer 1997), pp. 24-41. 'From The Angel at the Gate', in Caryl Phillips, ed., Extravagant Strangers (London: Faber and Faber, 1997), pp.126-134. 'Work-in-progress, from Jonestown. Draft 1994', in Stuart Murray, ed., Not On Any Map. Essays on Postcoloniality and Cultural Nationalism, (University of Exeter Press, 1997), pp. 182-191. 'From Jonestown', in The Archipelago. New Caribbean Writing; Conjunctions: 27 (Fall 1996).; pp. 39-50. From Jonestown, Atlanta Review, 3, 2 (Spring 1997), pp. 71-77. Extract from Palace of the Peacock, in Onyekachi Wambu, ed., Empire Windrush. Fifty Years of Writing about Black Britain (London: Victor Gollancz, 1998), pp. 63-67. Black Marsden (1972), in James Procter, ed., Writing Black Britain 1948-1998. An Interdisciplinary Anthology (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000). Extract from a novel-in-progress entitled The Mask of the Beggar , forthcoming in Temenos, pp. 3-9. Press, 2000), pp. 143-148. From The Dark Jester, Callaloo, vol.24, N°4 (2001), pp. 1052-1057. From The Mask of the Beggar, Temenos Academy Review N°5 (Autumn 2002), pp. 161-167. From The Mask of the Beggar, Moving Worlds, Vol.3, N°2 (2003), pp. 8-11.

Interviews

Interview by Ian Munro and Reinhard Sander, Kas-Kas, Interviews with Three Caribbean Writers in Texas (Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1972), pp. 43-55. Interview by Anna Rutherford and Kirsten Holst Petersen, Commonwealth Newsletter, 9 (January 1976), pp. 22-25. Interview by Helen Tiffin, New Literatures Review, 7 (1979), pp. 18-29. Interview by John Thieme, 'The Legacy of Conquest', Caribbean Contact (March 1980), pp. 17-18. Interview by Michel Fabre, Kunapipi, 2, 1 (1980), pp. 100-106. 'Wilson Harris', A Conversation between Wilson Harris and Alan Burns, in Alan Burns and Charles Sugnet, eds., The Imagination On Trial. British and American Writers Discuss their Working Methods (London: Allison and Busby, 1981), pp. 64-65. Interview by Michel Fabre, World Literature Written in English, 22, 1 (Spring 1983), pp. 2-17. 'Exile, Philosophic Myth, Creative Truth, Thrust and Necessity: An Interview with Wilson Harris', by Kalu Ogbaa, Caribbean Quarterly, 29, 2 (June 1983), pp. 54-62. 'Conversation with Wilson Harris', in Daryl Cumber Dance, New World Adams. Conversations with Contemporary West Indian Writers (Leeds: Peepal Tree Books, 1984), pp. 79-95. Interview by Jöran Mjöberg, Svenska Dagbladet, 2 June 1985. Unpublished Interview by Anne Walmsley, 11 February 1986. Interview by Jane Wilkinson, Kunapipi, 8, 2 (1986), pp. 30-45. Unpublished interview by Stephen Slemon and Helen Tiffin (24 April 1986). 'An Interview with Wilson Harris' by André Dommergues, Commonwealth, Essays and Studies, 9, 1 (Autumn 1986), pp. 91-97. 'Wilson Harris: in conversation with Fred D'Aguiar', Wasafiri, 5 (Autumn 1986), pp. 22-25. Interview by Claudette Earle, 'Marginal Societies, Arts of the Imagination and the Need to Interrogate the Building Blocks of Civilization', Sunday Chronicle (Guyana), 13 December 1987, p. 6. Interview by Stephen Slemon, Ariel, 19, 3 (July 1988), pp. 47-56. 'Wilson Harris interviews by Rovin Deodat', Kyk-Over-Al N°39 (December 1988), pp. 82-87. Neri, Michele, 'Sul fiume della Guyana 1'esploratore trova la frontiera della fantasia', article and interview after publication of Il palazzo del pavone, La Stampa, 21 Gennaio (Jan.) 1989, pp. 4-5. Mutran, Munira, H., An Interview with Wilson Harris, Estudos Anglo Americanos, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 14-15 (1990-1991), pp. 1-4. 'Some Intimations of the Stranger', Kirsten Holst Petersen and Anna Rutherford in conversation with Wilson Harris, in The Uncompromising Imagination, pp. 27-30. 'The Landscape of Dreams', Michael Gilkes talks to Wilson Harris, in The Uncompromising Imagination, pp. 31-38. Riach, Alan & Williams, Mark, "'Extracts from an Interview with Wilson Harris', Landfall, vol.46, n°4 (Dec. 1992), pp. 389-396. An Interview with Wilson Harris Conducted by Hena Maes-Jelinek, CARIBANA, 3 (1992-1993), pp. 23-30. 'Profile of Wilson Harris'. A conversation with Fred D'Aguiar, Pauline Melville, David Dabydeen and Edward Blishen. A BBC Radio 4 Kaleidoscope first broadcast on 27 November 1993. Produced by Fred D'Aguiar. Kyk-Over Al, 45 (December 1994), pp. 63-74. Vera Kutzinski, 'The Composition of Reality: A Talk with Wilson Harris', Callaloo, 18, 1 (Winter 1995), pp. 15-32. Charles H. Rowell, 'An Interview with Wilson Harris', Callaloo, 18, 1 (Winter 1995), pp. 192-200. 'Interview with Wilson Harris' by Kerry Johnson, The Journal of Caribbean Literatures, I, 1 (Spring 1997), pp. 83-95. Monica Pozzi, 'A Conversation with Wilson Harris', Il Tolomeo, 3 (1998), p. 179-184. Maurice Lee, 'An Interview with Wilson Harris', in Farhat Iftekharrudin, Mary Rohrberger and Maurice Lee, eds., Speaking of the Short Story (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississipi: 1997), pp. 133-151. Carmen Concilio: 'Una Domanda a Wilson Harris, caraibico', L'Indice dei Libri del Mese, Anno XVII-N.6, 2000, p.19. Riach, Alan, 'Extracts from an Interview with Wilson Harris', Landfall 184 (December 1992), pp. 389-396. Pozzi, Monica, 'A Conversation with Wilson Harris', in Journal of Caribbean Literatures, vol.2, n° 1, 2 1 3 (Spring 2000), pp. 260-270. 'Wilson Harris and Fred D'Aguiar in conversation with Gordon Rohlher, in Theatre of the Arts. Wilson Harris and the Caribbean, ed. Hena Maes-Jelinek & Bénédicte Ledent (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2002), pp. 231-247. 'When one dreams one dreams alone', Interview by Fred D'Aguiar, Bomb (Winter 2002/2003) N°82, pp.74-80. 'An Interview with Wilson Harris', a shorter version of the interview which first appeared in Kas-Kas: Interviews with Three Caribbean Writers in Texas (1972). See above. Munro Ian & Sander Reinhard, eds.,The Caribbean Writer, Vol.17 (2003), pp. 211-222. Camboni, Marina and Fazzini, Marco, 'An Interview with Wilson Harris in Macerata', in Resisting Alterities, Marco Fazzini, ed., (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2004), pp. 53-64. 'Wilson Harris with Fred D'Aguiar (1986)', in Susheila Nasta, ed., Writing Across Worlds. Contemporary Writers Talk (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 33-44.

Essays

'The Place of the Poet in Modern Society: A Glance at Two Guyanese Poets', The Graphic (May 1966); rpt. in Explorations. 'Impressions after Seven Years', New World, 44, 1 (July 1966), pp. 17-20. Tradition, the Writer and Society (London: New Beacon Books, 1967); rpt. 1973. See extract in John Thieme, ed. The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (London: Arnold, 1996), pp. 532-537 'Denis Williams', Kaie, 4 (July 1967), p. 22. 'The Unresolved Constitution', Caribbean Quarterly, 14, 1 & 2 (March-June 1968), pp. 43-47. 'A Comment on A Passage to India', Literary Half-Yearly, 10 (July 1969), pp. 35-40. 'Interior of the Novel: Amerindian/ European /African Relations', in K.L. Goodwin, ed., National Identity (London/ Melbourne: Heinemann, 1970); rpt. in Explorations. History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas (Georgetown: National History and Arts Council, 1970); also published in Caribbean Quarterly 16, 2 (June 1970), pp. 1-32; rpt. in revised form in Explorations. Revised and updated edition with a new introduction by Selwyn R. Cudjoe (Wellesley, Massachusetts: Calaloux Publications, 1995), 50 pp. 'The Phenomenal Legacy', Literary Half-Yearly, 11 (July 1970), pp. 1-6; rpt. in Explorations. 'The Native Phenomenon', in Anna Rutherford, ed., Common Wealth (Aarhus: Akademisk Boghandel, 1971), pp. 144-150; rpt. in Explorations. 'Kith and Kin', Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 7 (June 1972), pp. 1-5. 'A Talk on the Subjective Imagination', New Letters, 40 (October 1973), pp. 37-48; rpt. in Explorations. 'The Enigma of Values', New Letters, 40 (October 1973), pp. 141-149. Fossil and Psyche (Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1974); rpt. in Explorations. 'Reflection and Vision', in Hena Maes-Jelinek, ed., Commonwealth Literature and the Modern World (Brussels: Didier, 1975), pp. 15-19; rpt. in Explorations. 'Journey into the Canje', in Bernth Lindfors and Ulla Schild, eds., Neo-African Literature and Culture, Essays in Memory of Janheinz Jahn (Wiesbaden: Heymann, 1976), pp. 346-352. 'The Making of Tradition', in Alastair Niven, ed., The Commonwealth Writer Overseas, Themes of Exile and Expatriation (Brussels: Didier, 1976), pp. 33-39; rpt. in Explorations. 'Scented Gardens for the Blind', in Jeanne Delbaere, ed., Bird, Hawk, Bogie (Mundelstrup: Dangaroo Press, 1978), pp. 63-67; rpt. in Explorations and in Jeanne Delbaere, ed., The Ring of Fire, Essays on Janet Frame, (Mundelstrup: Dangaroo Press, 1992), pp. 92-96. 'Tradition and the West Indian Novel', in Tradition, the Writer and Society; rpt. in Edward Baugh, ed., Critics on Caribbean Literature (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1978), pp. 31-37. 'Some Aspects of Myth and the Intuitive Imagination', Lecture given at the University of Guyana in March 1978, in Explorations, pp. 97-106. 'Carnival of Psyche: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea', Kunapipi, 11, 2 (1980), pp. 142-150; rpt. in Explorations. 'An Open Letter to Toussaint L'Ouverture of the San Domingo Revolution', in Great Leaders: Ancient and Modern. Special issue of Journal of African Civilizations, ed. by Ivan Van Sertima, December, 1987 (vol.9), pp.409-425. Rpt. 1993. 'Raja Rao's Inimitable Style and Art of Fiction', World Literature Today (Autumn 1988), pp. 587-590. 'The Frontier on which Heart of Darkness Stands', Research in African Literatures 12, 1 (Spring 1981), pp. 86-93; rpt. in Explorations; also rpt. in Robert D.Hamner, Joseph Conrad: Third World Perspectives (Washington D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1990), pp.161-167; also in Robert Kimbrough, ed., Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. An Authoritative Text, Background and Sources Criticism. A Norton Critical Edition (New York/London: Norton & Company, 1988), pp. 262-268; also in Peter Childs, ed., Post-Colonial Theory and English Literature (Edinburgh University Press), pp. 227-233. Explorations, A Selection of Talks and Articles 1966-1981, ed. with an Introduction by Hena Maes-Jelinek (Mundelstrup: Dangaroo Press, 1981). 'The Complexity of Freedom' (on Wole Soyinka's The Road), in Explorations, pp. 113-124; rpt. In Adewale Maja-Pearce, ed., Wole Soyinka: An Appraisal (Oxford: Heinemann, 1994), pp. 22-35. Review of Joyce Sparer Adler's War in Melville's Imagination (New York: New York University Press, 1981), Ariel, 13, 2 (April 1982), pp. 83-85. 'Metaphor and Myth', in Robert Sellick, ed., Myth and Metaphor (Adelaide: Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English, 1982), pp. 1-14. The Womb of Space: The Cross-Cultural Imagination (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983). 'Reflections on William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust in a Cross-Cultural Complex', World Literature Written in English, 22, 1 (Spring 1983), pp. 98-106. 'The Quest for Form', Kunapipi, V, 1 (1983), pp. 21-27. Review of Keith Warner, Kaiso! The Trinidad Calypso, Research in African Literatures, 14, 3 (Fall 1983), pp. 417-421. 'Character and Philosophic Myth', in Britta Olinder, ed., A Sense of Place, Essays in Post-Colonial Literatures (Göteborg: The English Department, Gothenburg University, 1984), pp. 124-130. 'On the Beach', Landfall 155, 39, 3 (Sept. 1985), pp. 335-341. 'A Note on the Genesis of The Guyana Quartet', in The Guyana Quartet (London: Faber and Faber, 1985), pp. 7-14. 'Jean Rhys's "Tree of Life"', The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 5, 2 (Summer 1985), pp. 114-117. 'Adversarial Contexts and Creativity', New Left Review, 154 (Nov.-Dec. 1985), pp. 124-128. 'Carnival Theatre: A Personal View', in Masquerading, The Art of the Notting Hill Carnival (London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1986), pp. 38-42. 'Character and Philosophic Myth', Hambone, 6 (Fall 1986), pp. 98-107. A different essay from that in Britta Olinder's A Sense of Place. 'Houngan and Shaman', Hambone, 6 (Fall 1986), pp. 108-128. 'Guyanese Folk-Speech', review of Slave Song by David Dabydeen (Mundelstrup: Dangaroo Press, 1984), The Race Today Review, 17, 4 (December 1986), pp. 24-25. 'An Inventive Thinker', in Paul Buhle, ed., CLR James: His Life and Work (London: Allison & Busby, 1986), pp. 230-231. 'Fiction and Idea: A Note on Ellison's “Black Mask of Humanity”', , Benston-Kimberly, W., ed., Speaking for You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison (Washington DC: Howard University Press, 1987). 'Guyana Prize Address', Kyk-Over-Al, 38 (June 1988), pp. 24-27. 'Literacy and the Imagination', in Michael Gilkes, ed., The Literate Imagination: Essays on the Novels of Wilson Harris (London: Macmillan, 1989), pp. 13-30. 'Validation of Fiction: A Personal View of Imaginative Truth', in Maggie Butcher, ed., Tibisiri (Mundelstrup: Dangaroo Press, 1989), pp. 40-51. Also in Kyk-Over-Al, 38 (June 1988), pp. 27-34. 'Comedy and Modern Allegory: A Personal View', in Hena Maes-Jelinek, Kirsten Holst Petersen and Anna Rutherford, eds., A Shaping of Connections, Commonwealth Literature Studies-Then and Now (Mundelstrup: Dangaroo Press, 1989), pp. 127-140. 'A Note on Zulfikar Ghose's “Nature Strategies”', The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 9, 2 (Summer 1989), pp. 172-178. 'Oedipus and the Middle Passage', Landfall 170, 43, 2 (June 1989), pp. 198-208. Also in Geoffrey Davis and Hena Maes-Jelinek, eds., Crisis and Creativity in the New Literatures in English (Amsterdam/ Atlanta: Rodopi, 1990), pp. 9-21. 'The Fabric of the Imagination', Third World Quarterly, 12, 1 (January 1990), pp. 175-186; rpt. in Anna Rutherford, ed., From Commonwealth to Post-Colonial (Mundelstrup: Dangaroo Press, 1992), pp. 18-29. 'An Approach to Couvade', in Michael Gilkes, Couvade, A Dream-Play of Guyana (Mundelstrup: Dangaroo Press, 1990), pp. xi-xiv. 'Identities. Whose Europe is it anyway?', New Statesman and Society (22 June 1990), p. 3. 'In the Name of Liberty', Third Text, 11 (Summer 1990), pp. 7-15. 'Foreword' and 'The Amerindian Legacy', in Guyana Dreaming, The Art of Aubrey Williams, compiled by Anne Walmsley (Mundelstrup: Dangaroo Press, 1990), p. 9 and p. 81. 'Foreword' has been reprinted in Kunapipi, The Windrush Commemorative Issue, 20, 1 (1998), p.61. 'The Life of Myth and its Possible Bearing on Erna Brodber's Fictions Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home and Myal', Kunapipi, 12, 3 (1990), pp. 86-92. 'A Note on A.R.F. Webber's Those That Be In Bondage', Callaloo, 13, 1 (Winter 1990), pp. 147-149. 'The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination', Temenos 13 (1992), pp. 69-85. Also in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 27, 1 (1992), pp. 13-25. 'Review of Laurence Scott, Witchbroom, Wasafiri, 16 (Autumn 1992), pp. 65-66. 'Wilson Harris', An Autobiographical Essay (Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1992), pp. 121-137. Also published in Joyce Adler, Exploring the Palace of the Peacock. Essays on Wilson Harris, ed. by Irving Adler (Mona, Jamaica: University of West Indies Press, 2003), pp. viii-xxxiv. The Radical Imagination, Lectures and Talks, ed. by Alan Riach and Mark Williams (Liège: L3 - Liège Language and Literature, English Department, University of Liège, 1992), 132 pp. Contains the following essays: 'Judgement and Dream' (University of Cambridge, 1989)), rpt. in T.J.Cribb, ed., Imagined Commonwealth. Cambridge Essays on Commonwealth and International Literature in English (Basingstoke: Macmillan: 1998), pp. 51-67. 'Wilson Harris interviewed by Alan Riach' (1990) 'The Fabric of the Imagination' (University of Cambridge, 1990). A different essay from the one listed above with the same title. 'The Absent Presence: the Caribbean, Central and South America' (University of Cambridge, 1990). Also published in Hambone, 10 (Spring 1992), pp. 212-23. 'Unfinished Genesis: A Personal View of Cross-Cultural Tradition' (University of Cambridge, 1990). 'Creative and Re-Creative Balance Between Cultures' (University of Cambridge, 1991). 'Originality and Tradition' (University of Liège: 1991). 'Tainted Histories', Sound and Sight, February 1992, p. 31. 'Imagination Dead Imagine: Bridging a Chasm', The Yale Journal of Criticism, 7, 1 (1994), pp. 185-195. 'An Open Letter to Janet Frame', in Elizabeth Alley, ed., The Inward Sun, Celebrating the Life and Work of Janet Frame (Wellington: Daphne Brasell Associates Press, 1994), pp. 60-66. 'Quetzalcoatl and the Smoking Mirror', Wasafiri 20 (Autumn 1994), pp. 38-43. Also in Review: Latin American Literature and Arts 50 (Spring 1995), pp. 76-83; see also 'Quetzalcoatl and the Smoking Mirror (Reflections on Originality and Tradition)', The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 17, 1 (Summer 1997), pp. 12-23; also in Sisyphus and Eldorado: Magical and Other Realisms in Caribbean Literature, ed. Timothy J.Reiss (Africa World Press, 2002) , pp. 1-13. 'The Limbo Gateway', an Extract from History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and the Guianas, in Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, eds., The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (London: Routledge, 1995), pp. 378-82. 'On Marginality', Caricom Perspective, Souvenir Issue (June 1995), p.61. 'On the Cross-Roads', Kunapipi, 17, 1 (1995), special issue in memory of Sam Selvon, pp. 33-34. 'Profiles of Myth and the New World', in Wolfgang Zach and Ken L. Goodwin, eds., Nationalism vs Internationalism. (Inter)National Dimensions of Literatures in English (Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1996), pp. 77-86. 'A Brief Memoir', in Hena Maes-Jelinek, Gordon Collier and Geoffrey Davis, eds., A Talent(ed) Digger. Creations, Cameos and Essays in Honour of Anna Rutherford (Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1996), pp. 28-29. 'Aubrey Williams', in Third Text, 34 (Spring 1996), pp. 79-82. 'Apprenticeship to the Furies', River City, A Journal of Contemporary Culture, 16, 2 (Summer 1996), pp. 104-115. 'The Open Door', Journal of Modern Literature, 20, 1 (Summer 1996), pp. 7-12. Review of Michael Richardson and Krzystof Fijalkowski, Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean, Wasafiri, 25 (Spring 1997), pp. 96-98. 'Spirit of the Place', Talk on BBC Radio 4, 1 June 1997. 'A Note on Alan Burns's Fiction', The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 17, 2 (Summer 1997), pp. 186-192. Merlin and Parsifal, Adversarial Twins (London: Temenos Aacademy Papers N° 9, 1997), 15 pp. 'Ways to Enjoy Literature', in Gilbert Debusscher and Marc Maufort, eds.,Union in Partition. Essays in Honour of Jeanne Delbaere (Liège: L3 Liège Language and Literature, English Department, University of Liège, 1997), pp. 201-208. 'Creolization and the Creative Imagination', in Kathleen M. Balutansky and Marie-Agnès Sourieau, eds., Caribbean Creolization. Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language, Literature, and Identity (University Press of Florida and The Press University of the West Indies, 1998), pp. 21-35. 'The Music of Living Landscapes', Hambone , 14 (Fall 1998), pp. 169-176. Reprinted in Andrew Bundy, ed., The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination. Selected Essays by Wilson Harris (London: Routledge, 1999), pp. 40-46. 'Apprenticeship to the Furies', in Gordon Collier, Dieter Riemenschneider and Frank Schulze-Engler, eds., Post-Colonial Theory and the Emergence of a Global Society, ACOLIT, Special Issue N° 3 (Frankfurt am Main: ASNEL, 1998), pp. 137-149. A different essay from the one listed above under the same title. 'The Psyche of Space (Intuition and Otherness)', in Jean-Pierre Durix, ed., Theory and Literary Creation/Théorie et création littéraire. Collection Kaléidoscopes (Dijon: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 1999), pp. 11-19. Also published as 'Psyche of Space and Intuition of Otherness', The CLR James Journal: A Review of Caribbean Ideas, vol. 7, N° 1 (Winter 1999/2000), pp.3-13. 'Closing Statement: Apprenticeship to the Furies', in Ashok Bery and Patricia Murray, eds. Comparing postcolonial Literatures. Dislocations (London: Macmillan, 2000), pp. 240-251. Same essay as in River City. 'Intuition, Myth, Imagination, Memory', in Maura Dooley, ed., How Novelists Work (Bridgend: Poetry Wales Press Ltd, 2000), pp. 45-55. 'The Age of the Imagination', Journal of Caribbean Literatures, vol. 2, n° 1, 2 and 3 (Spring 2000), pp. 17-25. 'Aubrey Williams', Journal of Caribbean Literatures, vol. 2, n° 1, 2 and 3 (Spring 2000), pp. 26-30. This essay is not the same as that published earlier in Third Text. 'Memoir', in All Are Involved: The Art of Martin Carter, ed. by Stewart Brown (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2000), pp. 292-294. 'Lectio Doctoralis, 'in The Literary Criterion, vol.XXXV, n° 1 & 2, pp. 21-27. Also in Cynthia Hyacinth Wyatt, ed., The Vitality of West Indian Literature, Caribbean and Indian Essays (Mysore : A Dhavanyaloka Publication, 2000), pp. 21-27. 'Canaima: Renverser les habitudes de l'esprit dans les sillons les plus profonds de l'imagination', traduit de l'anglais par Marianne Enckell, Passerelles n°21 (Automne-hiver 2000), pp. 33-38. 'Theatre of the Arts', in Theatre of the Arts. Wilson Harris and the Caribbean, ed. Hena Maes-Jelinek & Bénédicte Ledent (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2002), pp.1-10. 'On Marginality', Kyk-Over-Al, N°39 (December 1988), pp. 82-87. Selected Essays of Wilson Harris, in Wilson Harris. The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination, ed. Andrew Bundy, (London/New York: Routledge, 1999). 'Theatre of the Arts', a slightly revised version of the essay published in Theatre of the Arts, in Places of Memory. Essays in Honour of Michel Fabre. Commonwealth. Essays and Studies. SP5 (2003), pp. 9-15. 'Colonialism, E.M. Forster, and the Carib Bone Flute', in Make it New. The Rise of Modernism, ed. Kurt Heinzelman with a Foreword by Thomas Staley, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (Austin, Texas, 2003), pp. 18-19. 'The Brutalisation of Truth', a talk given on 17 May 2003 at the University of Warwick. Forthcoming in a book of essays to be published by the Caribbean Centre of the University. 'Resistances to Alterities', in Marco Fazzini, ed., Resisting Alterities. Wilson Harris and Other Avatars of Otherness (Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2004), pp. 3-7. 'The Mystery of Timelessness,' Talk delivered on 18th August 2004 at the Festival of Edinburgh. Forthcoming in The Warrior of the Imaginary. 'Foreword' to Guyana Dreaming. The Art of Aubrey Williams, compiled by Anne Walmsley (Sydney/Mundelstrup: Dangaroo Press, 1990), p. 9. 'Canaima: An Overturning of Habits of Mind in Profoundest Trials of the Imagination', in Bénédicte Ledent, ed., Bridges Across Chasms. Towards a Transcultural Future in Caribbean Literature (Liège: L3 Liège Language and Literature: 2004), pp. 1-6. Preface to Nathaniel Mackey, Bass Cathedral (New York: New Directions, 2008), pp. vii-xi.

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Le palais du paon, traduit de l'anglais par Jean-Pierre Durix, avec la collaboration de Hena Maes-Jelinek et Claude Vercey. Préface de Jean-Pierre Durix (Paris: Edition des autres, 1979); rpt. (Paris: Le serpent à plume, collection 'Motifs', 1994). Der Palast der Pfauen, Aus dem Englischen von Inge Uffelmann. Mit einem Nachwort von Hena Maes-Jelinek (Zurich: Ammann Verlag, 1988). Il palazzo del pavone, trans. Susanna Basso (Torino: Einaudi, 1989). Palacio do Pavâo, traduçâo: Carlos Felipe Moisés (Sâo Paulo: Globo, 1990). L'échelle secrète, traduit de l'anglais et préfacé par Jean-Pierre Durix (Paris: Belfond, 1981). L'ange sur le seuil, traduit de l'anglais et préfacé par Jean-Pierre Durix (Paris: Belfond, 1982). Longa Jornada de Oudin (Sâo Paulo: Globo). 'Kanaima', translated into French by Jean-Pierre Durix, in Gulliver, 11 (été 1993), special issue on “World Fiction”, pp. 133-40. 'Kanaima', in Racconti Dai Caraibi. A cura di Paolo Bertinetti. Traduzioni di Paolo Bertinetti, Maria Clara Pasetti e Irene Pologruto (Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1997), pp. 197-206. 'Canaima: Renverser les habitudes de l'esprit dans les sillons les plus profonds de l'imagination', traduit de l'anglais par Marianne Enckell, Passerelles n°21 (Automne-hiver 2000), pp. 33-38. El palacio del pavo real, tr. Delia Mateovic (Barcelona: Diagonal, 2003).