Authority and authorship in V.S. Naipaul / Imraan Coovadia.
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TextPublisher: New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009Edition: 1st editionDescription: 188 p. : illContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780230622463 (ebook)Subject(s): Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 -- Criticism and interpretation | Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 -- Literary style | Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 -- Political and social views | Authority in literature | Authorship -- Political aspects | Authorship -- Social aspects | Literature | Literature: history & criticism | Literary studies: general | Literary studies: post-colonial literature | Literary theory | United States of America, USA | Relating to Latin / Hispanic American peopleGenre/Form: Online access: Click here to access online Also available in printed form ISBN 9780230615359Summary: 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. 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 asA Bend in the RiverandGuerillasare 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 hisimaginative authority over many different situations across the globe through a complex literary rhetoric.
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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. 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 asA Bend in the RiverandGuerillasare 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 hisimaginative authority over many different situations across the globe through a complex literary rhetoric.
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