V.S. Naipaul :
Cudjoe, Selwyn R.
V.S. Naipaul : a materialist reading / Selwyn R. Cudjoe. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. - 1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-278) and index.
Introduction -- Tradition, Miguel Street, and other stories : the first period of Naipaul's development -- The colonial society : opening up the social space -- A prose-tragedy : Mr. Biswas and the original myths -- The conflict of world views : the second period of Naipaul's development -- At the "rim of the world" : the postcolonial society -- Ideology, culture, and national identity -- The postcolonial society and the individual subject : the third period of Naipaul's development -- Doom and despair : the eternal condition of colonial peoples -- Language, repression, identity : a materialist recuperation -- Conclusion.
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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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Naipaul, V. S. 1932-2018 --Criticism and interpretation.
Naipaul, V. S. 1932-2018 --Political and social views.
Naipaul, V. S. 1932-2018
Naipaul, Vidiadhar S.
Naipaul, V. S. 1932-2018
1900-1999
Literature and society--History--West Indies--20th century.
West Indians--Intellectual life.
Decolonization in literature.
Colonies in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Colonies in literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Literature and society.
Political and social views.
West Indians--Intellectual life.
English Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
West Indies.
Fiction in English Trinidadian writers Naipaul, V S (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR9272.9.N32 / Z65 1988eb
823/.914
V.S. Naipaul : a materialist reading / Selwyn R. Cudjoe. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. - 1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-278) and index.
Introduction -- Tradition, Miguel Street, and other stories : the first period of Naipaul's development -- The colonial society : opening up the social space -- A prose-tragedy : Mr. Biswas and the original myths -- The conflict of world views : the second period of Naipaul's development -- At the "rim of the world" : the postcolonial society -- Ideology, culture, and national identity -- The postcolonial society and the individual subject : the third period of Naipaul's development -- Doom and despair : the eternal condition of colonial peoples -- Language, repression, identity : a materialist recuperation -- Conclusion.
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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.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
0585223750 9780585223759 1122052472 9781122052474
GB8838190 bnb
(AMICUS)000007730374 009120213 Uk
Naipaul, V. S. 1932-2018 --Criticism and interpretation.
Naipaul, V. S. 1932-2018 --Political and social views.
Naipaul, V. S. 1932-2018
Naipaul, Vidiadhar S.
Naipaul, V. S. 1932-2018
1900-1999
Literature and society--History--West Indies--20th century.
West Indians--Intellectual life.
Decolonization in literature.
Colonies in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Colonies in literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Literature and society.
Political and social views.
West Indians--Intellectual life.
English Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
West Indies.
Fiction in English Trinidadian writers Naipaul, V S (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR9272.9.N32 / Z65 1988eb
823/.914