Krishnan V. S. Naipaul's Journeys

From Periphery to Center
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-55025-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Sanjay Krishnan rereads V. S. Naipaul’s work to offer new perspectives on his achievements, shortcomings, trajectory, and complicated legacy. While recognizing the flaws and prejudices that shaped and limited Naipaul’s life and art, this book challenges the binaries that have restricted discussions of his writing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krishnan, Sanjay

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations
Introduction
I. Early Writings: 1955–1961
1. Memories of Underdevelopment: Miguel Street; The Middle Passage
2. Self and Society: The Suffrage of Elvira; A House for Mr Biswas
II. The Middle Period: 1962–1980
3. Historical Identities: The Middle Passage; An Area of Darkness
4. Fantasy and Derangement: The Loss of El Dorado; India: A Wounded Civilization; “Michael X and the Killings in Trinidad”
5. Ambiguous Freedom: “In a Free State”
6. Truth and Lie: A Bend in the River
III. Late Works: 1981–2010
7. Productive Deformation: The Enigma of Arrival
8. Landscapes of the Mind: India: A Million Mutinies Now
9. Conversations with the Faithful: Among the Believers; Beyond Belief
10. Concluding Reflections: Half a Life; Magic Seeds; The Masque of Africa
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sanjay Krishnan is associate professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of Reading the Global: Troubling Perspectives on Britain’s Empire in Asia (Columbia, 2007).