V. S. Naipaul
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V. S. Naipaul
(Macmillan modern novelists)
Macmillan, 1993
- : hc
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 161-164
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a user-friendly introduction to the novels and the non-fiction of V.S. Naipaul that will be of interest both to the student and to the specialist. It examines the language, structure, themes and development of Naipaul's writing, setting the novels in their autobiographical, philosophical, social and political, colonial and post-colonial contexts. Attention is given to Naipaul's existentialism, relationship to his literary models, use of Indian philosophy and vision of the Indian diaspora. Naipaul is shown to use similar formal literary structures and to have recurring themes and preoccupations during the four distinctive periods of his writing.
Table of Contents
- General Editor's 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 Barracoon, 'Michael X' and Guerrillas - '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 - Appendix A
- Naipaul's Family, A House for Mr.Biswas and The Mimic Men - Appendix B
- Naipaul, Trinidad and Africa - Notes - Selected Bibliography - Index
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