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The book is about V. S. Naipaul who was born in Trinidad in 1932. At the age of 18, Naipaul left Trinidad on a scholarship to study literature at Oxford. He never returned to live in Trinidad. His first book was published in 1956, and by the time Trinidad achieved political independence in 1962, he...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The book is about V. S. Naipaul who was born in Trinidad in 1932. At the age of 18, Naipaul left Trinidad on a scholarship to study literature at Oxford. He never returned to live in Trinidad. His first book was published in 1956, and by the time Trinidad achieved political independence in 1962, he had published four books and was firmly established as a writer in England. By the time Trinidad became a republic in 1976, Naipaul had written 13 books and had travelled through much of the postcolonial world. This book highlights how Trinidad and Naipaul were bound in a love-hate relationship where Naipaul continued to pass Trinidad off as a cynical island where 'nothing was created' while Trinidad had its share by laying back a claim on him and his writing. It is generally perceived that Naipaul shunned his place of birth as he called his birth in Trinidad a 'mistake,' Trinidad an 'unimportant, uncreative, cynical' place and the Caribbean as the 'Third World's Third World'. His refusal to acknowledge Trinidad in his initial response to receiving the Nobel Prize added insult to injury. Yet, he was deeply bound to the island of Trinidad and his roots in the Indo-Trinidadian community. This book makes Naipaul's connection to Trinidad more than evident and as such adds to the present body of knowledge |
| Beschreibung: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Mar 2024) Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Naipaul's Personality -- Naipaul's Theatrics -- Naipaul as a Journalist -- The Context of Decolonisation -- The Trinidadian Context -- Scope of this Book -- 1. Early Fiction of the 1950s: The Trinidad Years -- Gurudeva and Other Indian Tales (1943) -- The Mystic Masseur (1957) -- The Suffrage of Elvira (1958) -- Miguel Street (1959) -- A House for Mr Biswas (1961) -- 'A Dancing Dwarf on the Tarmac' -- Critical Response in Trinidad -- 2. The Interloper in Travel Writing -- The Middle Passage (1962) -- An Area of Darkness (1964) -- Critical Reception in Trinidad -- 3. Mimicry and Experiments of the 1960s -- Mr Stone and the Knights Companion (1963) -- A Flag on the Island (1967) -- The Mimic Men (1967) -- The Loss of El Dorado (1969) -- Mimicry and Representation -- 4. Displacement Across Borders in the 1970s -- The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles (1972) -- (i) The Booker Prize and the Black Power Movement -- In a Free State (1971) -- Black Power Movement in Trinidad -- 'Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad' (1980) -- Guerrillas (1975) -- (ii) The Impact of the Black Power Movement -- The Return of Eva Perón (1980) -- The first conference on East Indians in the Caribbean (1975) -- India: A Wounded Civilization (1977) -- A Bend in the River (1979) -- Challenges and Misrepresentation -- 5. The Imperial Vision of the 1980s -- Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981) -- Finding the Centre (1984) -- The Enigma of Arrival (1987) -- A Turn in the South (1989) -- Naipaul's Turn towards Conservatism -- 6. Redemptive Journeys in the 1990s -- India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990) -- 'Our Universal Civilization' (1990) -- 'Argentina and the Ghost of Eva Perón, 1972-1991' (1991) 'A Handful of Dust: Cheddi Jagan and the Revolution in Guyana' (1991) -- A Way in the World (1994) -- Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (1998) -- Letters Between a Father and Son (1999) -- An Assessment -- 7. Composing again in the 2000s -- Reading and Writing: A Personal Account (2000) -- 'Two Worlds' (2001) -- Half A Life (2001) -- Magic Seeds (2004) -- A Writer's People (2007) -- The 2007 Conference at UWI -- The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief (2010) -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: A Note on Trinidad -- Appendix B: A Note on V. S. Naipaul's Terminology and Use of Spellings -- Works Cited -- Index |
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| topic_facet | Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) 1932-2018 Criticism and interpretationn Naipaul, V. S. 1932-2018 Authors, Trinidadian 20th century Authors, Trinidadian 21st century |
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