Hena Maes-Jelinek

Hena Maes-Jelinek (1929 – 8 July 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 wrote extensively on the Guyanese writer Wilson Harris.

Tribute was paid to her in a collection entitled The Cross-Cultural Legacy: Critical and Creative Writings in Memory of Hena Maes-Jelinek (edited by Gordon Collier, Geoffrey V. Davis, Marc Delrez and Bénédicte Ledent; Brill, 2016), with contributors including Alastair Niven, Fred D'Aguiar, Wilson Harris, Louis James, Karen King-Aribisala, Alecia McKenzie, Caryl Phillips, Lawrence Scott, Stephanos Stephanides and Janet Wilson, and many others.[3]

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, "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.
  3. Niven, Alastair (15 December 2016). "Former principal pays tribute to Hena Maes-Jelinek". Cumberland Lodge. Retrieved 1 April 2021.


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