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Wilson Harris. The Mask of the Beggar.(Book Review)
Faber & Faber, 2003. 172 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling].
The Mask of the Beggar, Wilson Harris's twenty-fourth novel, can be read as a recapitulation of what he has been voicing (in that peculiarly personal rhythm of his prose) in all of his work, immersing the reader in dimensions of time and space that are dreamlike, unsettling, and yet profoundly real. A summation of his ideas and obsessions, the new novel contains passages germane to Harris's enduring fascination with Amerindian myths and his belief in "visionary Time" and statements defining the peculiar aesthetics of his art with its cross-cultural references. Harris states in a prefatory note that "The Mask of the …
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Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Raine, Kathleen
June 22, 1997
700+ words
...senses at a given moment. Wilson Harris, by contrast, sees...Western materialism. Wilson Harris restores us to the world...another, whether the mask is the same or another...can be pinned down-Wilson ...
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Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Melville, Pauline
June 22, 1997
700+ words
...many sources. Each of Wilson Harris's novels is a dense...the face of things. Wilson Harris deals with the archaeology...the man who can see the mask behind the face and write...qualities are present in Wilson ...
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Magazine article from: Research in African Literatures
Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney
March 22, 2006
700+ words
Resisting Alterities: Wilson Harris and Other Avatars of Otherness ED...contributions to Resisting Alterities: Wilson Harris and Other Avatars of Otherness are...and a selection from Harris's The Mask of the Beggar) and part two (composed...
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Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Kutzinski, Vera M.
June 22, 1997
700+ words
...the Writer and Society, his first collection of essays, Wilson Harris writes eloquently of "the series of subtle and nebulous links...resort. To wit, "A black or brown divinity could wear a white mask and red lips and still reveal itself complexly, profoundly...
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Magazine article from: Research in African Literatures
Pordzik, Ralph
September 22, 2001
700+ words
...seminal study The Womb of Space (1983), Caribbean writer Wilson Harris has challenged the legacy of Orwellian dystopianism and the...Lurie's Jacob with a `C' (1993), Peter Wilhelm's The Mask of Freedom (1994), and Mike Nicol's This Day and Age...
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Magazine article from: Journal of Latin American Studies
MURRAY, PATRICIA
February 1, 2000
700+ words
...religions, music, cuisine etc. that developed in the region. As Wilson Harris states in his essay ('Creoleness: The Crossroads of a Civilization...may the descendants of Europeans in the New World wear the mask of the Creole, but so do Africans, East Indians, Chinese...
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