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Philosophy of the imagination : time, immanence and the events that wound us in Wilson Harris’s Jonestown
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dc.contributor.author | Burns, Lorna Margaret | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-11-03T00:01:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-11-03T00:01:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-05-03 | |
dc.identifier | 42538076 | |
dc.identifier | 0bb92723-68ec-495d-b2e3-60091b033886 | |
dc.identifier | 84877675784 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Burns , L M 2013 , ' Philosophy of the imagination : time, immanence and the events that wound us in Wilson Harris’s Jonestown ' , Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 49 , no. 2 , pp. 174–186 . https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2013.776378 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1744-9855 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-2142-8853/work/60631212 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/5661 | |
dc.description | This is a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing edited by Lorna Burns and Wendy Knepper | en |
dc.description.abstract | In his fictional recreation of the People’s Temple massacre, Jonestown, Harris presents us with a protagonist who counter-actualizes the trauma that wounds him, living creatively out of the event and constructing an alternative present-future. Drawing on Deleuzian philosophy, this essay argues for a re-conceptualization of Jonestown in terms that evoke not only Deleuze’s philosophy of time and immanence but also his distinction, via Nietzsche, between active and reactive forces. By means of a character (Francisco Bone) who embraces the power of transformation, creation and difference-in-itself, Harris demonstrates the value of active forces that do not depend on external recognition or dialectical negation in order to be for a postcolonial philosophy of the imagination. | |
dc.format.extent | 211852 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Postcolonial Writing | en |
dc.subject | Jonestown | en |
dc.subject | Wilson Harris | en |
dc.subject | Gilles Deleuze | en |
dc.subject | the event | en |
dc.subject | time | en |
dc.subject | immanence | en |
dc.subject | PR English literature | en |
dc.subject.lcc | PR | en |
dc.title | Philosophy of the imagination : time, immanence and the events that wound us in Wilson Harris’s Jonestown | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of English | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/17449855.2013.776378 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2014-11-03 |
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