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Authority and authorship in V.S. Naipaul
- Title
- Authority and authorship in V.S. Naipaul / Imraan Coovadia.
- Author
- Coovadia, Imraan.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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- Description
- 188 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "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 as A Bend in the River and Guerillas are 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 his imaginative authority over many different situations across the globe through a complex literary rhetoric"--Publisher description.
- Subjects
- Naipaul, V. S (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018
- Literary style
- Authority in literature
- Political and social views
- Authorship > Social aspects
- Naipaul, V. S (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 > Political and social views
- Naipaul, V. S (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 > Criticism and interpretation
- Naipaul, V. S (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 > Literary style
- Authors, Trinidadian > History and criticism
- Authorship > Political aspects
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Trinidadian and Tobagonian literature (English) > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Authority and misquotation in A bend in the river -- The cold joke -- V.S. Naipaul and the black power killings in Trinidad -- V.S. Naipaul and the Muslims -- V.S. Naipaul and the uses of South Africa.
- Call Number
- Sc D 19-663
- ISBN
- 9780230615359
- 023061535X
- LCCN
- 2008045303
- OCLC
- 265733643
- Author
- Coovadia, Imraan.
- Title
- Authority and authorship in V.S. Naipaul / Imraan Coovadia.
- Publisher
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 19-663