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Created in the West Indies : Caribbean perspectives on V.S. Naipaul
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ISBN: 9766376581 9789766376581 9766374120 9789766374129 Year: 2011 Publisher: Kingston : Miami : Ian Randle Publishers,

Journey through darkness : the writing of V. S. Naipaul.
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ISBN: 0702220167 Year: 1987 Publisher: University of Queensland Press


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V. S. Naipaul's Journeys : From Periphery to Center
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ISBN: 0231550251 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press,

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The author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018) is one of the most acclaimed authors of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most controversial. Before settling in England, Naipaul grew up in Trinidad in an Indian immigrant community, and his depiction of colonized peoples has often been harshly judged by critics as unsympathetic, misguided, racist, and sexist. Yet other readers praise his work as containing uncommonly perceptive historical and psychological insight.In V. S. Naipaul’s Journeys, Sanjay Krishnan offers new perspectives on the distinctiveness and power of Naipaul’s writing, as well as his shortcomings, trajectory, and complicated legacy. While recognizing the flaws and prejudices that shaped and limited Naipaul’s life and art, this book challenges the binaries that have dominated discussions of his writing. Krishnan reads Naipaul as self-subverting and self-critical, engaged in describing his own implication in what he saw as the malaise of the postcolonial world. Krishnan brings together close readings of major novels with considerations of Naipaul’s work as a united project, as well as nuanced assessments of Naipaul’s political commentary on ethnic nationalism and religious fundamentalism. Krishnan provides a Naipaul for contemporary times, illuminating how his life and work shed light on debates regarding migration, diversity, sectarianism, displacement, and other global challenges.

V.S. Naipaul
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ISBN: 0582012449 0746308973 1786946424 9780582012448 1837647992 Year: 1976 Volume: 244 Publisher: Harlow


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V.S. Naipaul : an introduction to his work
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ISBN: 023396391X 9780233963914 Year: 1972 Publisher: Bergenfield, NJ ; London : André Deutsch,

Paradoxes of order : some perspectives on the fiction of V.S. Naipaul
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ISBN: 0826201725 9780826201720 Year: 1975 Publisher: Columbia (Mo.): University of Missouri

V. S. Naipaul : a materialist reading
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ISBN: 0870236202 0870236199 9780870236204 0585223750 9780585223759 9780870236198 1122052472 9781122052474 Year: 1988 Publisher: Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts Press,

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This major reassessment of novelist V.S. Naipaul's work argues that although Naipaul regards himself as "rootless ... without a past, without ancestors," his writing is in fact rooted in the literary and historical traditions of the Caribbean and can best be understood in the context of the larger field of postcolonial discourse. Covering in chronological order all of Naipaul's books, Selwyn R. Cudjoe charts the author's development from a position in which the tension between his Eastern and Western visions of the world created classics of world literature (A House for Mr. Biswas, The Mimic Men) to his progressive identification with "the dominant imperialist ideology and racist preoccupations of the age" (In a Free State, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, Among the Believers). Cudjoe's analysis is grounded in contemporary literary theory, an understanding of Hinduism, and a thorough knowledge of West Indian literature and history. - Back cover.


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Symbolism in the novels of Tawfiq Al-Hakim and V.S. Naipaul
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ISBN: 0773417591 9780773417595 9780773430471 0773430474 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. Edwin Mellen Press

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This book compares the literary styles of two authors from vastly different cultural and national heritages. Tawfiq Al-Hakim is an Egyptian and V.S. Naipaul is from Trinidad. The cultures are different but their literary techniques bear an affinity to one another. The author showcases how cultural differences are depicted in these novels, while also revealing a shared set of literary conventions utilized by these talented authors. Both draw on mythology and Jungian archetypes which are fertile ground for critical analysis that juxtapose them.

V.S. Naipaul
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ISBN: 052148359X 9780521483599 9780511519840 9780521403788 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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This introductory study offers a critical overview of the major works of V.S. Naipaul from 1950 to the present day. Professor Mustafa's main concern is with literary issues, but historical, political and cultural questions are also addressed, with comparative references to other postcolonial works. Paradoxically, a major segment of Naipaul's non-western, pro-decolonisation readership seized on negative elements in his thinking, while Western reaction to his ideas and themes led to set notions about Third-World society. Thus, his work has always been the object of radically divergent views, dependent on the perspective of the reader. In examining this issue, Mustafa introduces general debates about postcolonial literary production and its contemporary interrogation of narrative techniques, language, gender, race, and canon formulation.

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