Further Reading
- Additional coverage of Harris's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Black Writers, Eds. 2, 3; British Writers Supplement, Vol. 5; Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography, Vol. 3; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 65–68; Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 16; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 11, 27, 69; Contemporary Novelists, Ed. 7; Contemporary Poets, Ed. 7; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 117; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Ed. 1; and Reference Guide to English Literature, Ed. 2.
- James, Louis, "Structure and Vision in the Novels of Wilson Harris," World Literature Written in English 22, no. 1 (Spring 1983): 39–46. (James discusses the narrative structure in Harris's works, based on diagrams included in several of his novels.)
- Riach, Alan, "The Scottish Element in Wilson Harris," Scottish Literary Journal 18, no. 1 (May 1991): 68–81. (Riach discusses the influence of Scottish culture on Black Marsden, highlighting the implicit affinities between Scotland and the Caribbean.)
- Urs, S. N. Vikram Raj, "Wilson Harris: A Major Voice from the Caribbean," Commonwealth Quarterly 4, no. 15 (September 1980): 87–109. (Urs describes Harris's poetry as “a concrete realization of the concept of man,” and asserts that his poetry is a key to understanding Harris's entire literary oeuvre.)
- Webb, Barbara J., "History as Mythic Discourse: El siglo de las luces, Tumatumari, and La case du commandeur," in Myth and History in Caribbean Fiction, pp. 85–128. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. (Webb examines the narrative of the quest in El siglo de las luces, by Alejo Carpentier, Tumatumari, by Wilson Harris, and La case due commandeur, by Edouard Glissant.)
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