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008			120110s1995 enk b 001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aPR9272.9.N32 _bZ78 1995
082	0	0	_a823 NAI
100	1		_aMustafa, Fawzia _d, 1952-
245	1	0	_aV.S. Naipaul _c/ Fawzia Mustafa
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York _b: Cambridge University Press _c, 1995.
300			_axii, 255 p. _c; 23 cm.
440		0	_aCambridge studies in African and Caribbean literature
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-250) and index.
520			_aThis introductory study offers a critical overview of the major works of V. S. Naipaul from 1950 to the present day. Professor Mustafa's main concern is with literary issues, but historical, political and cultural questions are also addressed, with comparative references to other postcolonial works. Paradoxically, a major segment of Naipaul's non-western, pro-decolonisation readership seized on negative elements in his thinking, while Western reaction to his ideas and themes led to set notions about Third-World society. Thus, his work has always been the object of radically divergent views, dependent on the perspective of the reader. In examining this issue, Mustafa introduces general debates about postcolonial literary production and its contemporary interrogation of narrative techniques, language, gender, race, and canon formulation.
600	1	0	_aNaipaul, V. S. _q(Vidiadhar Surajprasad) _d(, 1932-)
651		0	_aWest Indies _x--In literature
942			_cMO
999			_c255580 _d255580