Hena Maes-Jelinek

Hena Maes-Jelinek (1929-2008) was a Czech-born Belgian literary scholar. She has been called "one of the founding mothers of the study of Commonwealth Literature and, later, Postcolonial studies in Europe",[1] who "pioneered the study of Caribbean literature in Belgium and Europe".[2] She has written extensively on the Guyanese writer Wilson Harris.

Works
  • Criticism of Society in the English Novel between the Wars, 1971
  • The Naked Design, 1976
  • Wilson Harris, 1982
  • (ed.) Wilson Harris: The Uncompromising Imagination, 1991
  • The Labyrinth of Universality, 2006

References
  1. Peterson, Kirsten Holst, [Available at:http://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol30/iss2/3 Memorial tribute to Héna Maes Jelinek], Kunapipi, 30(2), 2008.
  2. Kathleen Gyssels; Bénédicte Ledent (2008). L'ecrivain Caribéen, Guerrier de L'imaginaire. Rodopi. p. 5. ISBN 90-420-2553-0.
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