V.S. Naipaul / Fawzia Mustafa.
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 wo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1995.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in African and Caribbean literature.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-250) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511879050 0511879059 9780521483599 052148359X 0511519842 9780511519840 0521482720 9780521482721 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511519840 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |