Author : Imraan Coovadia
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ISBN 13 : 9781349379194
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (791 download)
Book Synopsis Authority and Authorship in V.S. Naipaul by : Imraan Coovadia
Download or read book Authority and Authorship in V.S. Naipaul written by Imraan Coovadia and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.