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- W4318214835 abstract "In most ghostly fashion, the plot of this tetralogy presents vague and blurry contours, but its capacity to terrify its spectator remains potent. It tells of an afterlife journey on a river which seems always to lead farther than Hell, of reaching beyond our human, contingent experience, of a fragmentation of the individual being as we think we know him or her; it tells of an odyssey which stages protagonists who, to all intents and purposes, appear as apparitions. The said journey is also composed of memory traces which not only haunt the characters but seem to constitute them, so much so that they are finally bestowed in turn a spectral identity, that they seem both present and absent to the world, visible and invisible; their unstable ontology allows them to swap identities, along the lines of one of the main postcolonial literary themes. The present paper will attempt to show to what extent the tetralogy is inserted within a time that takes place after the disaster, a time that comes too late, and where only a ‘second death’ (it is the title of the third book in Palace of the Peacock) could take place to break up a time that seems perenially stopped. Such a time, which is merely that of lingering memories, is also that of intertextuality. Intertextuality densely proliferates in The Guyana Quartet, and works through embedding. Such a textual memory leads straight to the amnesia which lies at the core of the journey, which directs its course and may explain away its apparent failure. Indeed, this spectrality is also, and lastly, a reverie around a lost world: more so, perhaps, than any other Caribbean author, Harris interrogates the disappearance of the Indian world, he sets these hardly perceptible echoes, these pieces of a lost language, into texts. Intertextuality becomes a sheer substitute to a spectral idiom which no one can grasp any longer. The ‘namelessness’ which occupies the dark centre of these four texts might eventually be the most stable attribute of the ghost which passes through them." @default.
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- W4318214835 title "The Ghost in Wilson Harris’s The Guyana Quartet: ‘Matter that Matters’" @default.
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- W4318214835 doi "https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pulm.11128" @default.
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