Format:
1 Online-Ressource (230 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed
ISBN:
9781350489912
Content:
V. S. Naipaul is a reader-friendly introduction to the writing of one of the most influential contemporary authors and the 2001 Nobel laureate in Literature. Bruce King provides a novel by novel analysis of the fiction with attention to structure, significance, and Naipaul's development as a writer, while setting the texts in their autobiographical. philosophical, social, political, colonial and postcolonial contexts. King shows how Naipaul modified Western and Indian literary traditions for the West Indies and then the wider world to become an international writer whose subject matter includes the Caribbean, England, India, Africa, the United States, Argentina, and contemporary Islam. Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of V. S. Naipaul now includes an expanded Introduction, and discussion of his most recent novels A Way in the World and Half a Life, his Nobel Lecture, Naipaul's writings on Islam, and a survey of the main criticism by other writers and postcolonial theorists
Note:
Preface Introduction Miguel Street, The Mystic Masseur, and The Suffrage of Elvira A House for Mr Biswas and The Middle Passage Mr Stone and the Knights Companion and An Area of Darkness A Flag on the Island, The Mimic Men, and The Loss of El Dorado In a Free State The Overcrowded Baracoon, 'Michael X', Guerrillas and India: A Wounded Civilization 'A New King for the Congo' and A Bend in the River Finding the Centre, The Enigma of Arrival, A Turn in the South, and India: A Million Mutinies A Way in the World Among the Believers, 'Our Universal Civilization' and Beyond Belief 'Two Worlds', Reading & Writing and Half a Life Naipaul's Critics and postcolonialism Appendix A: Naipaul's Family, A House for Mr Biswas and The Mimic Men Appendix B: Naipaul, Trinidad, Guyana and Africa Notes Selected Bibliography Index.
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9 Finding the Centre, The Enigma of Arrival, A Turn in the South and India: A Million Mutinies Now -- 10 A Way in the World: A Sequence -- 11 Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, 'Our Universal Civilization' and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples -- 12 'Two Worlds', Reading & Writing and Half a Life -- 13 Naipaul's Critics and Postcolonialism -- Appendix A: Naipaul's Family, A House for Mr Biswas and The Mimic Men -- Appendix B: Naipaul, Trinidad, Guyana and Africa -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350317550
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781403904553
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781403904560
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781403937681
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe King, Bruce V. S. Naipaul London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2003 ISBN 9781403904553
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4039-3768-1
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