V.S. Naipaul
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Miguel Street, The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira
- 3 A House for Mr Biswas and The Middle Passage
- 4 Mr Stone and the Knights Companion and An Area of Darkness
- 5 A Flag on the Island, The Mimic Men and The Loss of El Dorado
- 6 In a Free State
- 7 The Overcrowded Barracoon, âMichael Xâ, Guerrillas and India: A Wounded Civilization
- 8 âA New King for the Congoâ and A Bend in the River
- 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, âOur Universal Civilizationâ and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples
- 12 âTwo Worldsâ, Reading & Writing and Half a Life
- 13 Naipaulâs Critics and Postcolonialism
- Appendix A: Naipaulâs Family, A House for Mr Biswas and The Mimic Men
- Appendix B: Naipaul, Trinidad, Guyana and Africa
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index