V.S. Naipaul (Hardcover)  | Released: 2008

A constant concern of Naipauls 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 Naipauls 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.Table of Contents: 1. Naipauls Nobel John Thieme 2. The Novel of Migration Stuti Khanna 3. The Politics of Fluidity in A Bend in the River Fausto Ciompi 4. V.S. Naipauls Quest for a Voice of his Own: The Enigma of Arrival and Half a Life Florence DSouza 5. I am the Sum of my Books: The Trails, Trials, and Tribulations of V.S. Naipaul Harald Leusmann 6. V.S. Naipauls Vulcanization of Travel and Fiction Paradigms Serafn Roldn-Santiago 7. Better Simply to Endure: Naipauls Travels without Humour Emilienne Baneth-Nouailhetas 8. V.S. Naipauls A Bend in the River: Caricature as Social and Political Criticism Serafn Roldn-Santiago 9. Young Monkey, New Tricks: Foremans Apprenticeship in V.S. Naipauls The Suffrage of Elvira