V. S. Naipaul and World Literature

"V. S. Naipaul is a major and controversial figure in postcolonial and World literature. This book provides challenging and uncompromisingly honest author study that engages with history, genre theory, aesthetics and global literary culture with close reference to V. S. Naipaul's published and archival material"--

List of contents

List of archival material; Acknowledgments; Prologue Lacrimae Rerum, 'The Tears of Things'; Introduction; 1. V S. Naipaul aesthetic ideology and world literature; 2. 'The English language was mine; the tradition was not'; 3. The indenture social imaginary: a House for Mr Biswas and after; 4. Empires, slaves, rebels and revolutions; 5. In the shadow of the master: a Bend in the River; 6. The travel book and wounded civilizations; Epilogue: the death of the author; Notes; Works cited and select bibliography; Index.

About the author

Vijay Mishra is an emeritus professor at Murdoch University. Among his eight book publications are The Gothic Sublime (1994), Bollywood Cinema (2002), and Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy (2019). His great-grandparents were indentured laborers in Fiji. He is a fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy (FAHA).

Product details

• Authors: Vijay Mishra, Vijay (Murdoch University Mishra, Mishra Vijay
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2024
• EAN: 9781009433860
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0943386-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cambridge Studies in World Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Africa, Caribbean islands, Colonialism & imperialism, Historiography, Literary studies: general, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers