Resisting Alterities: Wilson Harris and Other Avatars of Otherness.(Book Review)

Resisting Alterities: Wilson Harris and Other Avatars of Otherness ED. MARCO FAZZlNI Cross/Cultures 71. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004. xiv + 255 pp. ISBN 90-420-1200-5 paper.

The contributions to Resisting Alterities: Wilson Harris and Other Avatars of Otherness are divided into three units, of which only those in part one, framed by Harris's lectio dotoralis, "Resistances to Alterities," delivered on the occasion of his receiving the Honoris Causa Degree in Modern letters from the University of Macerata, explicitly engage with Harris's work. "Intermezzo: The Writer's Voice" (a clutch of poems by different hands and a selection from Harris's The Mask of the Beggar) and part two (composed of ten essays) are predominantly concerned with …