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Content: 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

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Keywords: 1932-2018 Naipaul, V. S.

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Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Englisch ; Literatur ; Imperialismus ; Südostasien ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Globalisierung ; 1857-1924 Conrad, Joseph ; 1785-1859 De Quincey, Thomas ; 1723-1790 Smith, Adam

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Content: The global is an instituted perspective, not just an empirical process. Adopted initially by the British in order to make sense of their polyglot territorial empire, the global perspective served to make heterogeneous spaces and nonwhite subjects "legible," and in effect produced the regions it sought merely to describe. The global was the dominant perspective from which the world was produced for representation and control. It also set the terms within which subjectivity and history came to be imagined by colonizers and modern anticolonial nationalists.In this book, Sanjay Krishnan demonstrates how ideas of the global took root in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century descriptions of Southeast Asia. Krishnan turns to the works of Adam Smith, Thomas De Quincey, Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, and Joseph Conrad, four authors who discuss the Malay Archipelago during the rise and consolidation of the British Empire. These works offer some of the most explicit and sophisticated discussions of the world as a single, interconnected entity, inducting their readers into comprehensive and objective descriptions of the world.The perspective organizing these authors' conception of the global-the frame or code through which the world came into view-is indebted to the material and discursive possibilities set in motion by European conquest. The global, therefore, is not just a peculiar mode of thematization; it is aligned to a conception of historical development unique to European colonial capitalism. Krishnan troubles this dominant perspective. Drawing on the poststructuralist and postcolonial approaches of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and challenging the recent historiography of empire and economic histories of globalization, he elaborates a bold new approach to the humanities in the age of globalization.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: How to Read the Global -- , 1. Adam Smith and the Claims of Subsistence -- , 2. Opium Confessions: Narcotic, Commodity, and the Malay Amuk -- , 3. Native Agent: Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir’s Global Perspective -- , 4. Animality and the Global Subject in Conrad’s Lord Jim -- , Conclusion -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/kris14070

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Keywords: Singapur ; Theater ; Geschichte 1987-1997

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Format: VI, 294 Seiten

ISBN: 9780231193320

Content: "The author of more than thirty books 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. Naipaul grew up in Trinidad in an Indian immigrant community, and his depiction of colonized peoples has often been harshly judged by postcolonial 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 rereads Naipaul's work to offer new perspectives on his achievements, 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 restricted 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"--

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Keywords: Naipaul, V. S. 1932-2018

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ISBN: 9780231511742

Content: The global is an instituted perspective, not just an empirical process. Adopted initially by the British in order to make sense of their polyglot territorial empire, the global perspective served to make heterogeneous spaces and nonwhite subjects "legible," and in effect produced the regions it sought merely to describe. The global was the dominant perspective from which the world was produced for representation and control. It also set the terms within which subjectivity and history came to be imagined by colonizers and modern anticolonial nationalists.In this book, Sanjay Krishnan demonstrates how ideas of the global took root in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century descriptions of Southeast Asia. Krishnan turns to the works of Adam Smith, Thomas De Quincey, Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, and Joseph Conrad, four authors who discuss the Malay Archipelago during the rise and consolidation of the British Empire. These works offer some of the most explicit and sophisticated discussions of the world as a single, interconnected entity, inducting their readers into comprehensive and objective descriptions of the world.The perspective organizing these authors' conception of the global-the frame or code through which the world came into view-is indebted to the material and discursive possibilities set in motion by European conquest. The global, therefore, is not just a peculiar mode of thematization; it is aligned to a conception of historical development unique to European colonial capitalism. Krishnan troubles this dominant perspective. Drawing on the poststructuralist and postcolonial approaches of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and challenging the recent historiography of empire and economic histories of globalization, he elaborates a bold new approach to the humanities in the age of globalization.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: How to Read the Global -- , 1. Adam Smith and the Claims of Subsistence -- , 2. Opium Confessions: Narcotic, Commodity, and the Malay Amuk -- , 3. Native Agent: Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir’s Global Perspective -- , 4. Animality and the Global Subject in Conrad’s Lord Jim -- , Conclusion -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

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DOI: 10.7312/kris14070

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Format: 1 online resource (305 pages)

ISBN: 0-231-55025-1

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , ABBREVIATIONS -- , INTRODUCTION -- , EARLY WRITINGS: 1955–1961 -- , 1. MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT: MIGUEL STREET; THE MIDDLE PASSAGE -- , 2. SELF AND SOCIETY: THE SUFFRAGE OF ELVIRA; A HOUSE FOR MR BISWA -- , 3. HISTORICAL IDENTITIES: THE MIDDLE PASSAGE; AN AREA OF DARKNESS -- , 4. FANTASY AND DERANGEMENT: THE LOSS OF EL DORADO; INDIA: A WOUNDED CIVILIZATION; “MICHAEL X AND THE KILLINGS IN TRINIDAD” -- , 5. AMBIGUOUS FREEDOM: “IN A FREE STATE” -- , 6. TRUTH AND LIE: A BEND IN THE RIVER -- , 7. PRODUCTIVE DEFORMATION: THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL -- , 8. LANDSCAPES OF THE MIND: INDIA: A MILLION MUTINIES NOW -- , 9. CONVERSATIONS WITH THE FAITHFUL: AMONG THE BELIEVERS; BEYOND BELIEF -- , 10. CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS: HALF A LIFE; MAGIC SEEDS; THE MASQUE OF AFRICA -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , NOTES -- , INDEX , In English.

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DOI: 10.7312/kris19332