An evaluation of the intuitive fusion of the Haitian vodun possession trance/dance and the ancient Mayan linguistic representation of the past, present and future time in Wilson Harris’s Palace of the Peacock

An evaluation of the intuitive fusion of the Haitian vodun possession trance/dance and the ancient Mayan linguistic representation of the past, present and future time in Wilson Harris’s Palace of the Peacock

This paper was presented at the National Association of African American Studies and Affiliates, The University of the West Indies International Conference, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago, held June 20-22, 2019.

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Main Author: Mohammed, Shareed
Format: Presentation biblioteca
Language:English
Published: 2019-06
Subjects:Caribbean literature, > 20th century, > History and criticism, Religion and literature, > Caribbean Area,
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2139/49211
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spelling oai:oai:uwispace.sta.uwi.edu:2139:2139-492112020-07-24T04:42:10Z An evaluation of the intuitive fusion of the Haitian vodun possession trance/dance and the ancient Mayan linguistic representation of the past, present and future time in Wilson Harris’s Palace of the Peacock Mohammed, Shareed Caribbean literature--20th century--History and criticism Religion and literature--Caribbean Area This paper was presented at the National Association of African American Studies and Affiliates, The University of the West Indies International Conference, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago, held June 20-22, 2019. The Guyanese/British writer, Wilson Harris, in his theoretical essay “Apprenticeship to the Furies”, Harris argues with hindsight that the ancient Mayan “concept of blended pasts and futures … was intuitively alive in [his] own work” (233-234). Above all, Harris contends that such pre-Columbian vestige has an “intuitive ...correspondence” with “the black West Indian presence” in his fictional narratives (“Jean Rhys’s ‘Tree of life’” 119-120). This essay will demonstrate that Wilson Harris has intuitively infused the ancient Mayan linguistic representation of the past, present and future time with the Haitian vodun possession trance/dance in his first novel Palace of the Peacock to create a cross-cultural and re-visionary narrative. The University of the West Indies 2020-07-23T19:49:45Z 2020-07-23T19:49:45Z 2019-06 Presentation http://hdl.handle.net/2139/49211 en application/pdf
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Religion and literature--Caribbean Area
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Caribbean literature--20th century--History and criticism
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Mohammed, Shareed
An evaluation of the intuitive fusion of the Haitian vodun possession trance/dance and the ancient Mayan linguistic representation of the past, present and future time in Wilson Harris’s Palace of the Peacock
description This paper was presented at the National Association of African American Studies and Affiliates, The University of the West Indies International Conference, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago, held June 20-22, 2019.
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title An evaluation of the intuitive fusion of the Haitian vodun possession trance/dance and the ancient Mayan linguistic representation of the past, present and future time in Wilson Harris’s Palace of the Peacock
title_short An evaluation of the intuitive fusion of the Haitian vodun possession trance/dance and the ancient Mayan linguistic representation of the past, present and future time in Wilson Harris’s Palace of the Peacock
title_full An evaluation of the intuitive fusion of the Haitian vodun possession trance/dance and the ancient Mayan linguistic representation of the past, present and future time in Wilson Harris’s Palace of the Peacock
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title_full_unstemmed An evaluation of the intuitive fusion of the Haitian vodun possession trance/dance and the ancient Mayan linguistic representation of the past, present and future time in Wilson Harris’s Palace of the Peacock
title_sort evaluation of the intuitive fusion of the haitian vodun possession trance/dance and the ancient mayan linguistic representation of the past, present and future time in wilson harris’s palace of the peacock
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