Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism. London: Vintage, 1994, p. 48.
The Radical Imagination: Lectures and Talks by Wilson Harris, eds. Alan Riach and Mark Williams, Liège: L3 – Liège Language and Literature, 1992, p. 41.
Fred D'Aguiar The Longest Memory, London: Chatto and Windus, 1994. p. 33.
Culture and Imperialism, 19.
The Radical Imagination, 47.
Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River. London: Bloomsbury, 1993. Subsequent references to this edition are given in the text.
See also Edouard Glissant, “Le Cri du Monde”, Histoire et Anthropologie, 7 (1994). 4: “Je réclame le droit à l'opacité, qui n'est pas enfermement. C'est pour réagir contre tant de réduction à la transparence de modèles universels. […] Que l'opacité, qui n'ouvre pas sur l'obscurantisme, nous soit une fête, non une terreur. Que le droit à l'opacité, par où se préserverait au mieux la diversité, et par ou se renforcerait la tolérance, embellisse nos poétiques”. The Radical Imagination, 76–7.
See also Hena Maes-Jelinek, “‘Latent Cross-Culturalities’.”
Wilson Harris, “The Frontier on which Heart of Darkness Stands” in Explorations, Mundelstrup: Dangaroo Press, 1981, p. 135.
“Crossing the River”, Caryl Phillips talks to Maya Jaggi, Wasafiri, 20 (1994), 27.
Quoted in Maya Jaggi, “Spectral Triangle”. The Guardian, 5 May 1993.
Yet, says Phillips, “it seemed emotionally correct that [Joyce] should belong with the other three kids”. “Crossing the River”, 27 (italics mine).
“Crossing the River”, 28. Cf. the ending of Wilson Harris's The Tree of the Sun.
Culture and Imperialism, 408.
Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, London: Verso, 1993, pp. 98–9.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o. “The Writer and His Past” in Homecoming, London: Heinemann, 1972. p. 39.
