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

J 2016

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

KLÍMOVÁ, Zuzana

Základní údaje

Originální název

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

Autoři

KLÍMOVÁ, Zuzana

Vydání

Ostrava Journal of English Philology, Ostravská univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, 2016, 1803-8174

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14410/16:00091833

Organizační jednotka

Pedagogická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

memory; landscape; Wilson Harris; postcolonial

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 12. 3. 2018 23:11, Mgr. Zuzana Kršková, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

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.

Citovat

KLÍMOVÁ, Zuzana. Memory of a Landscape: Resurrection of the Past and a Community in the Works of Wilson Harris. Ostrava Journal of English Philology. Ostravská univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, 2016, roč. 8, č. 1, s. 41-61. ISSN 1803-8174.

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KLÍMOVÁ, Zuzana. Memory of a Landscape: Resurrection of the Past and a Community in the Works of Wilson Harris. \textit{Ostrava Journal of English Philology}. Ostravská univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, 2016, roč.~8, č.~1, s.~41-61. ISSN~1803-8174.

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