Mitchell, Michael (2013) Legends of the Fall : on rereading Companions of the Day and Night. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 49 (Number 2). pp. 187-197. doi:10.1080/17449855.2013.776383 ISSN 1744-9855.

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Abstract

In recent years the “spatial turn” with its revaluation of relationships between space and time has had repercussions in many disciplines, and offers a fruitful approach to Wilson Harris’s fiction. How space can be experienced to give access to the legendary and historical past is a major concern in his novel Companions of the Day and Night (1975). This essay combines a spatial approach with an investigation of the novel’s intertextual relations with Blake’s Gnostic and alchemical work “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, C.G. Jung’s proposal of a “new conceptual language” in his essay on synchronicity, and the legend behind the name of the Kaieteur Falls in Guyana. How Harris disturbs and subverts our processes of reading to allow the mythic, personal and political to be unveiled in outer and inner landscapes by the imag(in)ary is a revelation of the revolutionary and prophetic qualities of his art.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies > Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	1744-9855
Official Date:	2013
Dates:	Date Event 2013 Published
Volume:	Volume 49
Number:	Number 2
Page Range:	pp. 187-197
DOI:	10.1080/17449855.2013.776383
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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