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?Wilson Harris´s Imaginative Strategies for Dissolving Boundaries.?

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  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F14%3A00076688" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/14:00076688 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/00216224:14210/14:00076689

  • Result on the web

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    ?Wilson Harris´s Imaginative Strategies for Dissolving Boundaries.?

  • Original language description

    Can creative imagination inscribed into a work of art help to overcome the artificial imposition of boundary lines we perceive within as well as without our culture? Wilson Harris manages to employ creativity of imagination to transgress boundaries culturally forced upon the perception of the reader. In the context of postcolonial studies debate the boundaries that are mostly felt to be in need of transgression are those imposed on our perception and understanding of reality by the hegemonic influence of Western education, media as well as dominant theoretical approaches applied on the study of communities and art. Such boundaries are strongly linked to the culturally promoted ascription of a value to characteristics that are presented as not only antithetic, but moreover qualitative (race, gender, faith...). Harris manages to intertwine several cultural traditions (Ancient Mexican and Greek, Amerindian, African, Indian, European) to create a fluid, ever-changing image of the time-spac

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  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    O - Miscellaneous

  • CEP classification

    AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Others

  • Publication year

    2014

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů