my bones and my flute by edgar mittelholzer

Dr Cox Westmaas presented a keynote paper, Corentyne Thunder: A Quiet Revolution, at the XXVIII Annual West Indian Literature Conference in 2009, and for the Edgar Mittelholzer Memorial Lecture in 2014, Edgar Austin Mittelholzer’s Creative Genes(is) and the Geni(us) Behind It. Other publications include: ‘Music and Symbolism in Edgar Mittelholzer’s The Life and Death of Sylvia’ (Guyana Arts Journal, 2009) and introductions to the republished Peepal Tree editions of Mittelholzer’s Corentyne Thunder (2009) and The Life and Death of Sylvia (2010). She is editor of Creole Chips and Other Writings (2018), a compendium of Mittelholzer’s short stories, poems, plays, and non-fiction articles. Juanita Cox Westmaas completed her thesis Edgar Mittelholzer (1909-1965) and the Shaping of his Novels at the University of Birmingham in 2013. These assessments have led over the long term to Mittelholzer’s marginalization within academic. McDougall’s statement based on the assessments of past scholars is typical: ‘Mittelholzer is known to have suffered a sense of “genetic injury,” as Gilkes phrases the problem, because of his “Negro blood”, which in Mittelholzer’s own (unfortunately fascist and racist) view, contaminated his European inheritance.’ (1992: 79). These views initially and respectively highlighted by scholars 2 like Geoffrey Wagner (1961) and Joyce Sparer (1968), were said to reflect the views of the author have been repeated ad infinitum based largely on received wisdom, a surface analysis of the text and Mittelholzer’s interest in German philosophers like Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. While Edgar Mittelholzer (1909-1965) has been recognized as a pioneer of Caribbean literature, his work has typically been viewed as marred by the presence of sexual sensationalism, racist and fascist ideologies.

My bones and my flute by edgar mittelholzer