Vijay Mishra (Murdoch University

V. S. Naipaul and World Literature (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

V. S. Naipaul is a major and controversial figure in postcolonial and world literature. This book provides a challenging and uncompromisingly honest study that engages with history, genre theory, aesthetics, and global literary culture, with close reference to Naipaul's published and archival material. In his fiction and creative histories, the definition of the modern idea of world literature is informed by the importance of an artistic ordering of perception. Although often expressing ideas that are prejudicial and morally repugnant, there is an honesty in his writings where one finds extraordinary insights into how life is experienced within colonial structures of power. These colonial structures provided no abstract unity to the field of literary expression and ignored vernacular cultures. The book argues that a universal ideology of the aesthetic, transcending time, regions, and languages, provides world literature with a unity which is possible only within a critical universal humanism attuned to heroic readings of texts and cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2024
• ISBN-13: 9781009433846
• Artikelnr.: 70911571

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.