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Memory of a Landscape: Resurrection of the Past and a Community in the Works of Wilson Harris

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KLÍMOVÁ Zuzana

Rok publikování 2016
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Ostrava Journal of English Philology
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Pedagogická fakulta

Citace
www http://dokumenty.osu.cz/ff/kaa/ojoep/ostrava-journal-vol1-2016-full.pdf
Obor Písemnictví, mas-media, audiovize
Klíčová slova memory; landscape; Wilson Harris; postcolonial
Popis In the early stages of political independence, nations in the regions formerly colonized by the European empires had to face a problematic situation. Trying to define their new independent identity, some of them had to deal with a complicated question of their origins. Shared cultural tradition and history belong to the main principles through which identification processes take place. In the absence of a clearly defined tradition and under the influence of existing, but ambiguous and misleading historical accounts formation of a strong individual as well as collective identity becomes very difficult. Guyanese author Wilson Harris explores the topic of history and the alleged ‘historylessness’ of postcolonial communities already in his early works which correspond to the time when Guyana gained political independence. Outrunning the postmodern theories of historiography, Harris questions the fixity of the representation of the past abiding by the enlightenment epistemic principles. Searching for alternative sources of the past and the way to capture it he discovers a powerful image of a landscape (geographical as well as psychological) which, for him, becomes a bearer of memory through which the past can be rediscovered.

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