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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 January 2010
      07 September 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511519840
      9780521403788
      9780521483599
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519840
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.436kg, 268 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.354kg, 268 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Computational Linguistics, African and Caribbean Literature, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature (4)
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    Subjects:
    Computational Linguistics, African and Caribbean Literature, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature (4)
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    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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