V.S. Naipaul: Fiction and Travel WritingMittapalli Rajeshwar, Michael Hensen A Constant Concern Of Naipaul S Novels And Travel Writing Is The Negotiation Of Where The Individual Is Situated. Many Of His Fictional Figures Remain Unhoused, Displaced, Uprooted With No Distinct Place Called Home To Be Proud Of And Are, Therefore, Located On The Margins Of Fixed And Shifting Identities.In Formal Terms, Naipaul Experiments Along The Boundaries Of Fiction And Non-Fiction, In Particular Travel Writing, And Often Fuses Genres To Give Birth To New Ones.On The Occasion Of Naipaul S Winning The Nobel Prize For Literature This Anthology Presents A Perceptive Assessment Of Some Of His Important Works Of Fiction And Travel Writing And Puts Into Perspective His Contribution To Literature As A Whole. |
Contents
The Novel of Migration | 11 |
The Politics of Fluidity in A Bend in the River | 27 |
The Enigma of Arrival and Half a Life | 45 |
Tribulations of V S Naipaul | 65 |
Naipauls Travels without | 115 |
Social and Political Criticism | 134 |
Foremans | 164 |
Contributors 176 | |
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