SOURCE: Sander, Reinhard. Review of The Womb of Space: The Cross-Cultural Imagination, by Wilson Harris. World Literature Today 59, no. 3 (summer 1985): 477.

In the following positive review, Reinhard praises The Womb of Space as an attack on the traditional critical establishment.

The Guyanese writer Wilson Harris is a major contemporary novelist and thinker (see WLT 58:1, pp. 19–23). In more than a dozen works of fiction, he has realized a new, original form of the novel that in almost all respects constitutes a radical departure from the conventional novel. In his two previous collections of critical essays, Tradition, the Writer and Society (1967) and Explorations (1981), he presents the reader with the vision of a new society which underlies his esthetic concepts, and with his notions about the function of the writer. His latest critical work, The Womb of Space: The Cross-Cultural Imagination, will again serve as “an indispensable guide to Harris's understanding of...