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Denis Williams, painter, teacher, novelist, archaeologist, and cultural administrator, is one of the founding fathers of modern Guyana. His involvement in several of the countryâs key cultural institutions and his pioneering work on Guyanaâs founding peoples ensures him a special place in the countryâs history books. Williams also contributed to the outpouring of literature that accompanied the awakening consciousness of Caribbean nations and their drive for independence. His literary work is seminal in depicting the character of the Caribbean person and landscape, and the nature of ancestral (African and Afro-Caribbean) identities. His studies of African art and culture encouraged the young nation of Guyana to turn away from Western epistemologies and to pay serious intellectual attention to other origins. His research into the archaeology and culture of the Amerindian population of Guyana and beyond laid the pathway for further scholarship.
The essays assembled here bring together eminent scholars and commentators to offer authoritative analyses of the various aspects of Williamsâs work â artistic, academic, and literary â and capture the rationale for, the interconnections between, and the evident trajectory of Williamsâs life work as the epitome of the changing nature of the Caribbean condition. As well as wide-ranging biographical essays, and studies of Williamsâs activities as a painter, the collection contains a comprehensive primary and secondary bibliography, a generous selection of colour plates, and individual essays devoted to the published novels (Other Leopards; The Third Temptation) and other published and unpublished fiction, and to Williamsâs archaeological masterpiece, Prehistoric Guiana.
Contributors: Ulli Beier, Vibert Cambridge, David Dabydeen, Charles Gore, Stanley Greaves, Wilson Harris, Louis James, Andrew JeffersonâMiles, Nicholas Laughlin, Andrew Lindsay, John Picton, Leon Wainwright, Anne Walmsley, Charlotte Williams, Evelyn A. Williams, Jennifer Wishart.
The essays assembled here bring together eminent scholars and commentators to offer authoritative analyses of the various aspects of Williamsâs work â artistic, academic, and literary â and capture the rationale for, the interconnections between, and the evident trajectory of Williamsâs life work as the epitome of the changing nature of the Caribbean condition. As well as wide-ranging biographical essays, and studies of Williamsâs activities as a painter, the collection contains a comprehensive primary and secondary bibliography, a generous selection of colour plates, and individual essays devoted to the published novels (Other Leopards; The Third Temptation) and other published and unpublished fiction, and to Williamsâs archaeological masterpiece, Prehistoric Guiana.
Contributors: Ulli Beier, Vibert Cambridge, David Dabydeen, Charles Gore, Stanley Greaves, Wilson Harris, Louis James, Andrew JeffersonâMiles, Nicholas Laughlin, Andrew Lindsay, John Picton, Leon Wainwright, Anne Walmsley, Charlotte Williams, Evelyn A. Williams, Jennifer Wishart.
Charlotte Williams is Professor of Social Justice, Keele University. Her research incorporates postcolonial and critical race theory, feminism, and critical perspectives in social policy. Her publications include A Tolerant Nation? Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Wales (co-edited, 2003) and Sugar and Slate (2002).
Evelyn A. Williams, a former teacher of art and design, is a practising painter with a recently established studio in Guyana, where she applies the principles of Mbari. Current research interests include Denis Williamsâs artworks and the vernacular architecture of the Village Movement.
Evelyn A. Williams, a former teacher of art and design, is a practising painter with a recently established studio in Guyana, where she applies the principles of Mbari. Current research interests include Denis Williamsâs artworks and the vernacular architecture of the Village Movement.
Acknowledgements
List of Plates
David Dabydeen: Foreword
Charlotte Williams and Evelyn A. Williams: Introduction
Evelyn A. Williams: The âUncanny-Potencyâ of Art
Denis Williams: Artworks (Plates 1â10)
Wilson Harris: Two Periods in the Work of a West Indian Artist
Andrew JeffersonâMiles: The Unframing of the âIndwellingâ: Self-Portraits
Leon Wainwright: Speaking to Contemporary Art History: Denis Williams and Guyana
Louis James: âThe closeness of profound curiosityâ: The Parallel Visions of Wilson Harris and Denis Williams
Charlotte Williams: âA young man with a hopeâ: Side Notes on the Novel Other Leopards
Vibert C. Cambridge: Denis Williams and the New Novel: The Status of The Third Temptation
Andrew Lindsay: Preparing the Palette: The Artist in Words
Ulli Beier: The Ãsogbo Art Workshop
Charles Gore and John Picton: Denis Williams in Africa: A New Approach to Its Arts and Technologies
Stanley Greaves: Meeting Denis: A Mind Engaged
Jennifer Wishart and Evelyn A. Williams: âThe Island of Guianaâ
Nicholas Laughlin: âAs it was in the beginningâ: A Commentary on Prehistoric Guiana
Anne Walmsley: âHe lived his life totallyâ
Denis Williams: Primary and Secondary Bibliography
Chronology
Notes on Contributors
List of Plates
David Dabydeen: Foreword
Charlotte Williams and Evelyn A. Williams: Introduction
Evelyn A. Williams: The âUncanny-Potencyâ of Art
Denis Williams: Artworks (Plates 1â10)
Wilson Harris: Two Periods in the Work of a West Indian Artist
Andrew JeffersonâMiles: The Unframing of the âIndwellingâ: Self-Portraits
Leon Wainwright: Speaking to Contemporary Art History: Denis Williams and Guyana
Louis James: âThe closeness of profound curiosityâ: The Parallel Visions of Wilson Harris and Denis Williams
Charlotte Williams: âA young man with a hopeâ: Side Notes on the Novel Other Leopards
Vibert C. Cambridge: Denis Williams and the New Novel: The Status of The Third Temptation
Andrew Lindsay: Preparing the Palette: The Artist in Words
Ulli Beier: The Ãsogbo Art Workshop
Charles Gore and John Picton: Denis Williams in Africa: A New Approach to Its Arts and Technologies
Stanley Greaves: Meeting Denis: A Mind Engaged
Jennifer Wishart and Evelyn A. Williams: âThe Island of Guianaâ
Nicholas Laughlin: âAs it was in the beginningâ: A Commentary on Prehistoric Guiana
Anne Walmsley: âHe lived his life totallyâ
Denis Williams: Primary and Secondary Bibliography
Chronology
Notes on Contributors