Title V.S. Naipaul / Fawzia Mustafa

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) Series Cambridge studies in African and Caribbean literature Cambridge studies in African and Caribbean literature. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-250) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 fast Subject Literature SUBJECT Developing countries -- In literature West Indies -- In literature Subject Developing countries West Indies Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 94037522 ISBN 9780511879050 0511879059 9780521483599 052148359X 0511519842 9780511519840 0521482720 9780521482721

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