V. S. Naipaul: The (Hi)Story of a pro-Western-very Eastern-storyteller
This essay investigates the re-readings and rewritings of colonial canonical texts from the perspective of the colonized. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1902) has been a particularly influential text for V. S. Naipaul. His novel A Bend in the River (1979) can be seen as a rewriting of Conrad’s n...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | This essay investigates the re-readings and rewritings of colonial canonical texts from the perspective of the colonized. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1902) has been a particularly influential text for V. S. Naipaul. His novel A Bend in the River (1979) can be seen as a rewriting of Conrad’s novella. However, it also reflects his ambivalence towards the post-colonial struggle for decolonization as well as the persistent traditional Western conceptions of Africa and the Africans. This essay therefore explores the enigmatic in-betweenness and double-edgedness of Naipaul’s work. |
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