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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
January 2010
Print publication year:
1995
Online ISBN:
9780511519840
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519840
Subjects:
Computational Linguistics, African and Caribbean Literature, Language and Linguistics
Series:
Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature (4)
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Book description

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.

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"This is one of the best books on Naipaul, and it should be important for postcolonial studies at the upper-division undergraduate level and above." Choice

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