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V.S. Naipaul

Fawzia Mustafa

(Cambridge studies in African and Caribbean literature)

Cambridge University Press, 1995

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780521403788

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Chronology
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Bearings
  • 3. Home
  • 4. Abroad
  • 5. The world
  • 6. Right of abode
  • 7. One way
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780521482721

Description

The Monarchia, Dante's treatise on political theory, addresses the fundamental question of what form of political organisation best suits human nature; it embodies a political vision of startling originality and power, and illuminates the intellectual interests and achievements of one of the world's great poets. The whole text is here presented in a new translation, the first for forty years, based on a more up-to-date and scholarly version of the Latin original than has previously been available. The translation, together with accompanying introduction and notes, has been prepared by Prue Shaw. In this new and accessible form, the Monarchia will interest not only Dante specialists, but also students of literary studies, political history and philosophy.

Table of Contents

  • Map
  • Introduction
  • Editor's note
  • Acknowledgements
  • Monarchia: Book I, Book II, Book III
  • Select bibliography
  • Index.

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