Denis Williams, painter, teacher, novelist, archaeologist, and
cultural administrator, is one of the founding fathers of modern
Guyana. His involvement in several of the country's key cultural
institutions and his pioneering work on Guyana's founding peoples
ensures him a special place in the country's 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 Williams's
work - artistic, academic, and literary - and capture the rationale
for, the interconnections between, and the evident trajectory of
Williams's life work as the epitome of the changing nature of the
Caribbean condition. As well as wide-ranging biographical essays,
and studies of Williams's 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and other published and unpublished fiction, and to Williams's
archaeological masterpiece, "Prehistoric Guiana." Contributors:
Ulli Beier, Vibert Cambridge, David Dabydeen, Charles Gore, Stanley
Greaves, Wilson Harris, Louis James, Andrew Jefferson-Miles,
Nicholas Laughlin, Andrew Lindsay, John Picton, Leon Wainwright,
Anne Walmsley, Charlotte Williams, Evelyn A. Williams, Jennifer
Wishart.
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