Articles & Essays | Conference Papers | Entries in Encyclopedias & Reference Works
Dissertations | Selected Reviews | Obituaries | Miscellaneous
Dissertations | Selected Reviews | Obituaries | Miscellaneous
Primary Sources
Extracts from Fiction
Essays
- 'Carnival of Psyche: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea', Kunapipi, 11.2 (1980), pp. 142-150.
- 'The Quest for Form', Kunapipi, 5.1 (1983), pp. 21-27.
Interviews
- Interview by Michel Fabre, Kunapipi, 2.1 (1980), pp. 100-106.
- Interview by Stephen Slemon, Ariel, 19.3 (July 1988), pp. 47-56.
- 'When one dreams one dreams alone', interview by Fred D'Aguiar, Bomb, 82 (Winter 2002/2003), pp. 74-80.
Secondary Sources
- Armstrong, Andrew, '"Bloody History !" Exploring a Capacity for Revision. Restaging History in Wilson Harris's Jonestown and Caryl Phillips' The Nature of Blood', Jouvert, 6.3 (Spring 2002), 11 pp.
- Boote, Tayla, '"Something Must Come of This": Confronting the Faces and Spaces of Jonestown in Literature', The Jonestown Report, 20 (October 2018).
- Brannigan, John, '"The Regions Caesar Never Knew": Cultural Nationalism and the Caribbean Literary Renaissance in England', Jouvert, 5.1 (Autumn 2000), 29 pp., esp. pp. 13-16.
- Burnett, Paula, '"Where else to row, but backward?" Addressing Caribbean Futures through Re-visions of the Past', Ariel, 30.1 (January 1999), pp. 11-37.
- Burns, Lorna, 'Creolization and the Collective Unconscious: Locating the Originality of Art in Wilson Harris's Jonestown, The Mask of the Beggar and The Ghost of Memory', Postcolonial Text, 4.2 (2008), 18 pp.
- Courbot, Léo, '"Many Rivers to Cross": Orphic Confluences of Fred D'Aguiar's Children of Paradise and Wilson Harris' Palace of the Peacock', Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World, 6 (2018).
- D'Aguiar, Fred, 'Prosimetrum', Caribbean Review of Books, 19 (February 2009), pp. 30-32.
- DeLoughrey, Elizabeth, 'Shipscapes: Imagining an Ocean of Space', Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, 16.2 (2020).
- Durix, Jean-Pierre, 'Paradoxes of Creation: Wilson Harris's The Secret Ladder', Ariel, 15.2 (April 1984), pp. 27-38.
- Durrant, Sam, 'Hosting History: Wilson Harris's Sacramental Narratives', Jouvert, 5.1 (Autumn 2000).
- Gana, Nouri, 'Donne Undone: The Journey of Psychic Re-integration in Wilson Harris's Palace of the Peacock', Ariel 32.1 (January 2001), pp. 153-170.
- Ghose, Zulfikar, 'Reading Wilson Harris's The Mask of the Beggar', Context, 14, pp. 8-9.
- Gibson, Darin, 'The Gift of Humility: A Brief Note of Thanks to Wilson Harris', Tout Moun, 5.1 (2019).
- Gibson, Darin, 'Death and Awakening: A Meditation on William Blake's Tiger and the Concept of Rebirth in Wilson Harris's The Whole Armour', Tout Moun, 4.2 (2018).
- Guerra, Juani, 'Cognition and sociocultural situatedness: cross-culture-specific Caribbean self-celebration of imagination in Jose Lezama Lima and Wilson Harris', Journal of Caribbean Literatures, 6.2 (Fall 2009).
- Healy, J.J., 'Wilson Harris at Work: The Texas Manuscripts with Special Reference to the Mayakovsky Resonance in Ascent to Ornai', Ariel, 15.4 (1984), pp. 89-107.
- Highfield, Jonathan, '"Hell that springs from the grave of memory": Sacrifice, Whiteness, and Extinction in Wilson Harris' Jonestown', Jonestown Report, 10 (October 2008).
- Howard, W.J., 'Wilson Harris's Guiana Quartet: From Personal Myth to National Identity', Ariel, 1.1 (January 1970), pp. 46-60.
- Hunte, Nicola, 'Notions of Myth, Gestures of Masquerade: Theatre of Memory in Derek Walcott's Omeros and Toni Morrison's Beloved', Shibboleths, 2.1 (December 2007), pp. 58-69.
- Jaggi, Maya, 'A Life in Writing: Redemption Song', Guardian, 16 December 2006.
- KlÃmová, Zuzana, 'Memory of a Landscape: Resurrection of the Past and a Community in the Works of Wilson Harris', Ostrava Journal of English Philology, 8.1 (2016), pp. 41-61.
- Ledent, Bénédicte, 'Du cauchemar à l'utopie réalisable: Londres dans les nouvelles et romans de la diaspora antillaise anglophone', Eric Tabuteau et Corinne Duboin, eds., Images de l'interculturel dans la littérature antillaise anglophone (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2000), pp. 207-221.
- Lichtenstein, David P., 'A Brief Biography of Wilson Harris', Postcolonial Web, 1999.
- Lichtenstein, David P., 'Wilson Harris: Experimental Vision', Postcolonial Web, 1999.
- Maes-Jelinek, Hena, '"Inimitable Painting": New Developments in Wilson Harris's Latest Fiction', Ariel, 8.3 (July 1977), pp. 63-80.
- Maes-Jelinek, Hena, 'Fictional Breakthrough and the Unveiling of "unspeakable rites" in Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves and Wilson Harris's Yurokon', Kunapipi, 2.2 (November 1980), pp. 33-43.
- Maes-Jelinek, Hena, 'Ouverture', Journal of Caribbean Literatures, 2.1&2&3 (Spring 2000), pp. 6-16.
- Mascoli, Giulia, & Valérie-Anne Belleflamme, 'Sur les traces d'Hena Maes-Jelinek. Les études postcoloniales : inauguration d'une tradition liégeoise', in Une Fabrique des Sciences humaines. L'Université de Liège dans la mêlée (1817-2017), ed. by Vincent Genin (Archives générales du Royaume, 2019), pp. 265-283.
- McCarthy, Cameron & Greg Dimitriadis, 'Art and the Postcolonial Imagination: Rethinking the Institutionalization of Third World Aesthetics and Theory', Ariel 31, 1&2 (Jan.-Apr.2000), pp. 231-253.
- Moss, Laura, '"The Plague of Normality": Reconfiguring in Postcolonial Theory', Jouvert, 5.1 (Autumn 2000), 19 pp., passim.
- Procter James, 'Wilson Harris', Contemporary Writers, 2009.
- Ross, Jack, 'Wilson Harris, Joseph Conrad, and the South American "Quest" Novel', Landfall, 184 (December 1992), pp. 455-468.
- Slemon, Stephen, 'Carnival and the Canon', Ariel, 19.3 (July 1988), pp. 59-75.
- Thorpe, Michael, 'Wilson Harris: Writing against the Grain', Ariel, 25.3 (July 1994), pp. 113-120.
Conference Papers
- Edlund, Rebekka, 'Carnival and Quantum Theory: Metaphors of Identity in Wilson Harris's The Carnival Trilogy', The Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference Papers, 7 (2006).
- Moore, Rebecca, 'The Sacred and the Profane in Wilson Harris' Jonestown', Crisis Carnival Conference, San Diego State University, 2008.
Dissertations
- Gilliland, Marion Charlotte, 'The art of Wilson Harris', PhD diss., University of Florida, 1982, 260 pp.
- DuBois Bourenane, Heather L., 'Rewriting the Real: Magical Realism and the Fiction of Wilson Harris and Ben Okri', MA thesis, Ohio State University, 2000, 158 pp.
- Halpé, Aparna, 'Between Myth and Meaning: The Function of Myth in Four Postcolonial Novels', PhD thesis, University of Toronto, 2010, 291 pp. Discusses Jonestown.
- Haynes, Justin, 'Carnival: Transformation, Performance and Play in Caribbean Festivals', PhD thesis, Vanderbilt University (Tennessee), 2010, 236 pp. Includes a discussion of Wilson Harris' Carnival in chapter 5 (pp. 172-218).
- Khan, Aliyah R., '"Calling the Magician": The Metamorphic Indo-Caribbean', PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, 2012.
- KlÃmová, Zuzana, 'The Cross-cultural Multidimensionality and Syncretic Interpretation of History in Wilson Harris's Work Based on the Study of The Guyana Quartet', MA thesis, Masaryk University (Czech Republic), 2010, 121 pp.
- Shields, Tanya Liesel, 'El Dorado: The New Quest for Caribbean Unity', PhD dissertation, University of Maryland, 2005, 312 pp.
Entries in Encyclopedias & Reference Works
Selected Reviews
Novels
The Angel at the Gate
The Dark Jester
The Mask of the Beggar
The Ghost of Memory
- de Caires, Brendan, 'Ghost World: The Ghost of Memory by Wilson Harris', Caribbean Review of Books, 11 (February 2007), pp. 14-16.
- Howe, Stephen, Independent, 26 January 2007.
- Phillips, Mike, 'The Mask of the Gods', Guardian, 23 December 2006.
Collections of Essays
Explorations
Obituaries
- 'Obituary Note: Wilson Harris', Shelf Awareness, 28 March 2018.
- 'Sir Wilson Harris, Prolific Guyanese Writer Dies at Age 96', Permanent Mission of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana to the United Nations, 12 March 2018.
- 'World Famous Guyanese Author Wilson Harris Passes Away at 96', Stabroek News, 9 March 2018.
- Chabrol, Denis, 'Guyanese Literary Giant, Sir Wilson Harris, Dies', Demerara Waves, 8 March 2018.
- Mair, John, 'Diaspora Tribute to Wilson Harris'(letter to the editor), Stabroek News, 15 April 2018.
- Mitchell, Michael, 'Sir Wilson Harris Obituary', Guardian, 9 March 2018.
- Thieme, John, 'In Memoriam: Wilson Harris, Le Simplegadi, 18 (November 2018), pp. 12-14.
Miscellaneous
- Hutchinson, Ishion, 'A Surveyor's Journal', Caribbean Review of Books, 19 (February 2009). Poem inspired by and dedicated to Wilson Harris.
- Tonkin, Boyd, 'The Week in Books: Salute the dark knight of Guyana', Independent, 18 June 2010.
- Creighton, Al, 'A British decoration recognising the work of a genius in fiction', Stabroek News, 20 June 2010.
- Bagoo, Andre, 'A Palace on Stilts : Guyanese Novelist Wilson Harris Returns to Life in Trinidad & Tobago's Carnival', Global Voices, 8 March 2019.
- 'Angela Carter and Wilson Harris', interview with Angela Carter, by Kate Webb, Times Literary Supplement, 30 March 2018, p. 39.
- Wilson Harris at 100, Bocas Lit Fest, March 2021.
- Readings and recitals from the work of Wilson Harris, Guyana-born writer, Moray Trust House, 24 March 2022.
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