V. S. Naipaul of Trinidad

The book collects material from local critics, newspapers and interviews to present V. S. Naipaul in new light as a "true blue" Trinidadian writer. The book foregrounds Naipaul's deep connections not only with the land of his birth but with its literary and historical heritage and its peoples.

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter 1: Early Fiction of the 1950s: The Trinidad Years The Mystic Masseur ; The Suffrage of Elvira; Miguel Street; A House for Mr Biswas; Chapter 2: The Interloper in Travel Writing: The Middle Passage; An Area of Darkness; Chapter 3: Mimicry and Experiments of the 1960s: Mr Stone and the Knights Companion; A Flag on the Island; The Mimic Men; The Loss of El Dorado; Chapter 4: Displacement Across Borders in the 1970s,  4.1 The Booker Prize and the Black Power Movement  & 4.2  In a Free State; The Return of Eva Perón, with The Killings in Trinidad; Guerrillas; India: A Wounded Civilisation; A Bend in the River; Chapter 5: The Imperial Vision of the 1980s: Among the Believers; Finding the Centre; The Enigma of Arrival; A Turn in the South; Chapter 6: Redemptive Journeys in the 1990s: India: A Million Mutinies Now; A Way in the World; Beyond Belief; Letters between a Father and Son; Chapter 7: Composing again in the 2000s: Half A Life; Magic Seeds; A Writer's People; The Masque of Africa; Conclusions; Works Cited

About the author

Nivedita Misra is a scholar of literature and diaspora in the Caribbean.

Summary

The book collects material from local critics, newspapers and interviews to present V. S. Naipaul in new light as a “true blue” Trinidadian writer. The book foregrounds Naipaul’s deep connections not only with the land of his birth but with its literary and historical heritage and its peoples.

Product details

• Authors: Nivedita Misra
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781839989193
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-919-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, Local History, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Trinidad (1950s-1990s)