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V. S. Naipaul

  • Textbook
  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Bruce King
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Part of the book series: Modern Novelists (MONO)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Bruce King
    Pages 1-16

  3. Miguel Street, The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira

    • Bruce King
    Pages 17-35

  4. A House for Mr Biswas and The Middle Passage

    • Bruce King
    Pages 36-53

  5. Mr Stone and the Knights Companion and An Area of Darkness

    • Bruce King
    Pages 54-64

  6. A Flag on the Island, The Mimic Men and The Loss of El Dorado

    • Bruce King
    Pages 65-82

  7. In a Free State

    • Bruce King
    Pages 83-97

  8. The Overcrowded Barracoon, ‘Michael X’ and Guerrillas

    • Bruce King
    Pages 98-115

  9. ‘A New King for the Congo’ and A Bend in the River

    • Bruce King
    Pages 116-135

  10. Finding the Centre, The Enigma of Arrival, A Turn in the South and India: A Million Mutinies

    • Bruce King
    Pages 136-152

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 153-170
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This is a user-friendly introduction to the novels and the non-fiction of V.S. Naipaul that will be of interest both to the student and to the specialist. It examines the language, structure, themes and development of Naipaul's writing, setting the novels in their autobiographical, philosophical, social and political, colonial and post-colonial contexts. Attention is given to Naipaul's existentialism, relationship to his literary models, use of Indian philosophy and vision of the Indian diaspora. Naipaul is shown to use similar formal literary structures and to have recurring themes and preoccupations during the four distinctive periods of his writing.

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