Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Myth of El Dorado in the Caribbean Novel; 2. The Writer as Alchemist: The Unifying Role of the Imagination; 3. Palace of the Peacock; 4. The Far Journey of Oudin: A Naked Particle of Freedom; 5. The Whole Armour: A Compassionate Alliance; 6. The Secret Ladder: The Immaterial Constitution; 7. Heartland: Between Two Worlds; 8. The Eye of the Scarecrow; 9. The Waiting Room: A Primordial Species of Fiction; 10. Tumatumari: An Epic of Ancestors; 11. Ascent to Omai.

12. From The Sleepers of Roraima to The Angel at the Gate: The Novel as Painting13. Da Silva da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness: "Inimitable Painting"; 14. The Tree of the Sun and Resurrection: Faces on the Canvas; 15. Carnival and Creativity; 16. Carnival and J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country: Ambivalent Clio; 17. The Infinite Rehearsal; 18. The Four Banks of the River of Space: Unfinished Genesis; 19. Carnival, The Infinite Rehearsal, and The Four Banks of the River of Space: Ulyssean Carnival of Epic Metamorphoses; 20. Resurrection at Sorrow Hill: Charting the Uncapturable.

21. Obscure Sorrow Hill: Seminal Ground of Endless Creation22. "Tricksters of Heaven": Visions of Holocaust in Jonestown and Fred D'Aguiar's Bill of Rights; 23. The Dark Jester: "Unimaginable Imaginer"; 24. The Mask of the Beggar: Transfigurative Art; 25. The Ghost of Memory: A Meditation on the Nature of Art; 26. "Latent Cross-Culturalities" in Harris and Soyinka: Their Creative Alternative to Theory; 27. Ut Musica Poesis; 28. Writing and the Other Arts; 29. Wilson Harris's Multi-Faceted and Dynamic Perception of the Imaginary.

30. "Numinous Proportions": Wilson Harris's Alternative to All 'Posts'Conclusion: Straight Lines and Arabesques; Bibliography of Works Cited.