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Gianluca Delfino's encounter with one of the Caribbean's most controversial authors illuminates Wilson Harris's imaginative approach to history and time. Delfino references several novels, with a special focus on The Infinite Rehearsal (1987), Jonestown (1996), and The Dark Jester (2001). His analysis encompasses critical perspectives from African philosophy to Jungian readings, refracted through historiography and anthropology, demonstrating the remarkable unity that binds four decades of Harris's work. As a result, the cross-cultural quality of Harris's thought emerges as a healing outcome of the traumatic colonial encounter, bringing together elements of Amerindian, African, and European origin in an ongoing dialogue with time, nature, and the psyche.

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Easily the most comprehensive treatment that we now have of Wilson Harris's philosophy. A major contribution to the literature on Harris's philosophy and also to the continuing recovery and reformulation of Caribbean philosophy. -- Paget Henry The CLR James Journal

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Gianluca Delfino earned his Ph.D in English literature at the University of Turin and has published several articles in English Studies.

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