Vijay Mishra

V. S. Naipaul and World Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"V. S. Naipaul is a major and controversial figure in postcolonial and World literature. This book provides challenging and uncompromisingly honest author study that engages with history, genre theory, aesthetics and global literary culture with close reference to V. S. Naipaul's published and archival material"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781009433860
• ISBN-10: 1009433865
• Artikelnr.: 69073079

Autorenporträt

Vijay Mishra is an emeritus professor at Murdoch University. Among his eight book publications are The Gothic Sublime (1994), Bollywood Cinema (2002), and Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy (2019). His great-grandparents were indentured laborers in Fiji. He is a fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy (FAHA).

Inhaltsangabe

List of archival material
Acknowledgments
Prologue Lacrimae Rerum, 'The Tears of Things'
Introduction
1. V S. Naipaul aesthetic ideology and world literature
2. 'The English language was mine
the tradition was not'
3. The indenture social imaginary: a House for Mr Biswas and after
4. Empires, slaves, rebels and revolutions
5. In the shadow of the master: a Bend in the River
6. The travel book and wounded civilizations
Epilogue: the death of the author
Notes
Works cited and select bibliography
Index.