The Ideology of Archetype: Mythical Strategies in Wilson Harris’s Jonestown

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Catalogue identifier: klm000076
Alternate titles and import identifiers: KLM000076
Author or attribution: Aparna Halpé
Record type: Article
Language: English
Date / edition: 2015-11
Source / repository: Interférences littéraires / Literaire interferenties
Access: Open access
Subjects: KLM Research Sources — Second Set, 5 November 2026; Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Philosophy, Theology, and Comparative Religion

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Examines how Wilson Harris’s Jonestown reworks Kali within a syncretic, postcolonial literary imagination. Halpé contrasts archetypal readings with the social history of Indo-Guyanese worship, questioning the loss of cultural specificity when the goddess becomes a universal symbol. Substantial analysis of Kali’s relation to female characters, indenture and religious images makes this useful for modern literary reception and diaspora studies.

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The Ideology of Archetype: Mythical Strategies in Wilson Harris’s Jonestown

Author and date: Aparna Halpé • 2015-11

Publication: Interférences littéraires / Literaire interferenties. No. 17 (November 2015), pp. 199–212, in Le mythe : mode d’emploi, edited by Franca Bruera. Publisher landing-page migration date is 2018-07-09; not the original publication date. PDF has 16 pages including two preliminary pages.

Language: English; French abstract

English title: Same as title

Kali relevance: Kali is a central extended case study, not an incidental name; sustained discussion connects her literary portrayal to Indo-Guyanese worship.

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Subjects: Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Philosophy, Theology, and Comparative Religion

Dates: Modern scholarship; Not applicable

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Aparna Halpé. The Ideology of Archetype: Mythical Strategies in Wilson Harris’s Jonestown. Interférences littéraires / Literaire interferenties. No. 17 (November 2015), pp. 199–212, in Le mythe : mode d’emploi, edited by Franca Bruera. Publisher landing-page migration date is 2018-07-09; not the original publication date. PDF has 16 pages including two preliminary pages. 2015-11. https://interferenceslitteraires.be/index.php/illi/article/download/150/105

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