Authority and Authorship in V.S. Naipaul [electronic resource] /
Coovadia, I.author.
This book traces the ways in which problems of imaginative authority and authorship structure the fiction and non-fiction of V.S. Naipaul and resonate in postcolonial literature. Imraan Coovadia argues that the post-colonial societies Naipaul studies in novels such asA Bend in the RiverandGuerillasare defined by the fragility of their authority. Coovadia demonstrates through close reading, how Naipaul, born in Trinidad to an Indian family and resident of the United Kingdom,asserts hisimaginative authority over many different situations across the globe through a complex literary rhetoric.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Authorship and Authority; 1 Authority and Misquotation in A Bend in the River; 2 The Cold Joke; 3 V.S. Naipaul and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad; 4 V.S. Naipaul and the Muslims; 5 V.S. Naipaul and the Uses of South Africa; Conclusion: Style and Naipaulian Transformations in the Indian Travel Narratives; Notes; Bibliography; Index
This book traces the ways in which problems of imaginative authority and authorship structure the fiction and non-fiction of V.S. Naipaul and resonate in postcolonial literature. Imraan Coovadia argues that the post-colonial societies Naipaul studies in novels such asA Bend in the RiverandGuerillasare defined by the fragility of their authority. Coovadia demonstrates through close reading, how Naipaul, born in Trinidad to an Indian family and resident of the United Kingdom,asserts hisimaginative authority over many different situations across the globe through a complex literary rhetoric.
Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018
Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018
Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018
Literature   .
America—Literatures.
Literature—Philosophy.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
North American Literature.
Literary Theory.