V. S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul is a reader-friendly introduction to the writing of one of the most influential contemporary authors and the 2001 Nobel laureate in Literature. Bruce King provides a novel by novel analysis of the fiction with attention to structure, significance, and Naipaul's development as a wr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: King, Bruce
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Macmillan Education UK 2003, 2003
Edition:Second Edition
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • A Wounded Civilization
  • 'A New King for the Congo' and A Bend in the River
  • Finding the Centre, The Enigma of Arrival, A Turn in the South, and India: A Million Mutinies
  • A Way in the World
  • Among the Believers, 'Our Universal Civilization' and Beyond Belief
  • 'Two Worlds', Reading & Writing and Half a Life
  • Naipaul's Critics and postcolonialism
  • Appendix A: Naipaul's Family, A House for Mr Biswas and The Mimic Men
  • Appendix B: Naipaul, Trinidad, Guyana and Africa
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index