The deep impact of the Guyanese topography upon Harris's psyche has its roots in his early vocation as a government land surveyor during the 1940s and 1950s.
This article seeks to shed new light onto the inscription of indigenous mythical tales in the contemporary postcolonial novel by way of a comparative and contrastive analysis of Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller (1987) and Pauline Melville's first novel The Ventriloquist's Tale (1997)
Author Hannan examines Pauline Melville's "Shape Shifter." He suggests that the varied invocations of cultural difference in Shape-Shifter, Melville's first book of short stories, delineate a crisis within contemporary literature's ability to represent globalization.