V.S. Naipaul, Caribbean writing, and Caribbean thought

• Verfasst von: Ghosh, William [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: V.S. Naipaul, Caribbean writing, and Caribbean thought
• Verf.angabe: William Ghosh
• Ausgabe: First edition
• Verlagsort: Oxford ; New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2020
• Umfang: viii, 192 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford English monographs
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 179-188 ; Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
• ISBN: 0-19-886110-9
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886110-2
• Schlagwörter: (p)Naipaul, V. S. / (g)Karibik / (s)Postkoloniale Literatur
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Ghosh, William, 1990 - : V.S. Naipaul, Caribbean writing, and Caribbean thought. - First edition.. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020. - 1 online resource (208 pages).
• RVK-Notation: HQ 7023
• RVK-Notation: HQ 7691
• K10plus-PPN: 1736266276

Abstract

V.S. Naipaul was one of the most influential and controversial writers of the twentieth century. His writings on colonialism and its aftermath, on migration and landscape, and on cultural loss and creativity, were both admired and criticised by a wide global audience. 0But what of his relationship to the region of his birth? Born in Trinidad, of Indian ancestry, and spending his professional life in England, Naipaul could be dismissive of his Caribbean background. He presented himself as a citizen of nowhere, or else, of the globalized, postcolonial world. However, this obscures his intense competition, fierce disagreements and close collaboration with other Caribbean intellectuals, both as a schoolchild in colonial Trinidad, and as an internationally0celebrated author. V.S. Naipaul, Caribbean Writing, and Caribbean Thought looks again at Naipaul's relationship with his birthplace. It shows that that the decolonising Caribbean was the crucible in which Naipaul's style and outlook were formed. Moreover, understanding Naipaul's place in the history of the region's politics and letters sheds new light on the work of celebrated contemporaries, Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite, George Lamming and Maryse Conde, Elsa Goveia and Eric Williams, Sylvia Wynter and C.L.R. James. 0Literary criticism, intellectual biography, and an essay in the history of ideas, this book offers a new account of Caribbean thought in the decades after independence. It reveals a literary culture of creative vibrancy, in an era of unprecedented change