Selected Essays: The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination

Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century. His novels date from The Palace of the Peacock to Jonestown. This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his critical writings, from 1961 to the present day. Selected Essays of Wilson Harris brings together twenty-one lectures, addresses and essays to make available Harris's full range of writings on subjects including:• the literate imagination• traditions of myth and fable in Central and South America• the North American literary imagination, from Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville and Ralph Ellison, to William Faulkner and Jean Rhys• inheritances and legacies of writers of the postcolonial diaspora This comprehensive collection also comes complete with:• an extensive editorial introduction, providing valuable historical and theoretical context for the essays• a map of Guyana• bibliographies of Harris's fiction and non-fiction• appendices on the legends of El Dorado and the Holy Grail.