Found inside – Page 166In fact , it is undoubtedly difficult to understand V.S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River without having a kind of historical perspective through which the ... 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. Found inside – Page 253Encouraged by his father , a journalist and aspiring fiction writer , Naipaul ... of the postcolonial condition prevails in A Bend in the River ( 1979 ) . Affective Disorders also explores in some detail the formal consequences of these feelings - the way in which affective states such as anger or jealousy can often destabilize narratives, provoking crises of representation, generic ... Found inside – Page 319Naipaul, V.S. 62,84, 86, 146; A Bend in the River 84;A Congo Diary 86 Nanabush 153 Native Title Act (NTA) 176, 177 native-title laws 203 Nehru, ... Found inside – Page 65One of the products of Naipaul's Indian journey was his only novel set exclusively ... East African character in Naipaul's novel A Bend in the River (1979), ... Found inside – Page 307Naipaul's first two novels published , The Mystic Masseur ( 1957 ) and The ... In a Free State ( 1971 ) , Booker Prize winner , and A Bend in the River ... Found inside – Page 59This is voiced in what a character called Blackwhite says in the novel that ... A Bend in the River and Guerillas take up the theme of the postcolonial ... Found inside – Page 20In his paper on “Postcolonialism and Strategies of Narration in India”, ... made a comprehensive postcolonial reading of Naipaul's novel A Bend in the River ... Found inside – Page 45Reflecting Conrad's Darkness: Naipaul's A Bend in the River Whereas “Chekov and Zulu” vividly illustrates the concept of postcolonial counter-discourse and ... Found insideGuerrillas depicts a convulsion in public life, and ends in private violence. The novel comes with extraordinary force from the centre of a profound moral awareness of the world’s plight. ‘Impeccable . . . Found inside – Page 43But when what looks like a satiric portrait creeps in—for instance the Big Man in A Bend in the River—it is held at arm's length and kept from clear ... Found inside – Page 1121They were followed by novels such as Guerrillas (1975) and A Bend in the River (1979), where the primary concern is with personal displacement in ... Found inside – Page 113Following the first-person perspective of Rufus, the novel has a cinematic ... We followed a bend in the river and in front of us we saw dead birds draped ... With a preface by the author. V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men is a profound, moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial man’s experience in the post-colonial world. Found inside – Page 267... 181, mystery writers 176 Mythology 27, cultural mythology 230 Nabokov 45 Naipaul, V. S. 130 n20, 132 n32, A Bend in the River 135, 150 n9, Guerrillas 9, ... Found insideHe buys a small shop in a sleepy town, at a bend in the river, where he sells sundries to the locals. First published in 1979, A Bend in the River is V.S. Naipaul's vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence. Found inside – Page 438The novel A Bend in the River makes reference to the sociopolitical turmoil of 1960s and 1970s postcolonial Zaıre: ethnic conflicts, secessionist movements ... Found inside – Page 91... writes that the “bitter taste” of Naipaul's middle period fiction has in ... in such novels as guerrillas, In a Free State and A Bend in the River. Found inside – Page 215Naipaul, Bend in the River, 141, 155. See also Erica Johnson, “Provincializing Europe: The Postcolonial Urban Uncanny in V. S. Naipaul A Bend in the River,” ... Found insideV. S. Naipaul's novels from A House for Mr Biswas (1961) and The Mimic Men (1967), to Guerrillas (1975) and A Bend in the River (1979), recount different ... Found inside – Page 97In A Bend in the River (1979), set in an unnamed African state after ... Discussed by John Clement Ball, Satire and the Postcolonial Novel, p.43. Found insideWith an introduction by author Teju Cole, A House for Mr Biswas is Nobel Prize in Literature winner V. S. Naipaul's unforgettable masterpiece. Found inside – Page 24A Bend in the River is set in a central African republic, based on Zaire, ... The novel contains two overt references to Conrad (165, 180) and the name of ... Found inside – Page 119The novel covers a decade from, roughly, 1965, to Naipaul's 1975 visit. ... unstable society in A Bend in the River is based on Naipaul's observation of ... This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. Found insideNaipaul, V. S. A Bend in the River. 1979. ... “Devices of Evasion: The Mythic versus the Historical Imagination in the Postcolonial African Novel. For a complete list of titles, see the inside of the jacketnew Introduction for this Modern Library edition, has said, "The sweep of Naipaul's imagination, the brilliant fictional frame that expresses it, are in my view without equal today. Found inside – Page 154The flagellatory implications in the postcolonial dynamic between writer and ... Thus the brilliance of A Bend in the River — Naipaul's previous novel, ... Found inside – Page 117BEND. IN. THE. RIVER. I feel that to destroy the world is the only course of action that is now open to sane men . ' -V.S. Naipaul Nobody's going anywhere . Found inside – Page 144His brother, Shiva Naipaul who was also a writer, wrote a novel under the title, 'Fire Flies'. ... A Bend in the River (1979) and A Way in the World (1994). In After Empire Michael Gorra explores how three novelists of empire—Paul Scott, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie—have charted the perpetually drawn and perpetually blurred boundaries of identity left in the wake of British imperialism ... Found inside – Page 157... achieving a greater understanding of the predominant political system manifested in postcolonial Africa. V.S. Naipaul's novel A Bend in the River is a 157. Found inside – Page 253Although considered one of the finest and most versatile postcolonial writers. ... of the postcolonial condition prevails in A Bend in the River (1979). Found inside – Page 186In this tale as in The Mimic Men, A Bend in the River and Guerrillas, Naipaul secretes not just his racial prejudices but also his own personal infirmities ... Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick French skillfully examines Naipaul’s life within a displaced community and his fierce ambition at school. Found inside – Page 892Naipaul's distinctive contribution to the postcolonial novel (and in this ... a Free State (1971) and A Bend in the River (1979)——fiction that reflects the ... 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. Found inside – Page 200... beginning with In a Free State (1971) and Guerillas (1975) and culminating with A Bend in the River (1979)—a novel that explicitly evokes and reworks ... Found inside – Page 133... Naipaul's A Bend in the River been commandeered by an author interested in denigrating an entire continent; while the unintelligibility of the novel's ... Found inside – Page 49A Bend in the River encapsulates many of the features of N aipaul's portrayal of the predicament of the émigré. The novel's narrator, Salim, likens himself ... Found inside – Page 6723 The familiar complaint in postcolonial criticism that Naipaul is ... A Bend in the River develops the sense of postcolonial 67 The Novel and Cultural ... Found insideGHOSTS FROM THE FUTURE: V. S. NAIPAUL, A BEND IN THE RIVER One of the most powerful novels to trace the effects of European imperialism in Africa, ... " In this book, Dagmar Barnouw explores the sophisticated strategies and experimentations that Naipaul employs in his cultural critique and in his enterprise of learning about and documenting the enduring strangeness of this world. Found inside – Page 328More Conradian still is V.S. Naipaul's epic novel of post—colonial Zaire (unnamed but fully recognizable), A Bend in the River (1979), which evokes and ... Found inside – Page 319... native ' African ' sensibility in his postcolonial novel , set in the Congo , A Bend in the River ( 1979 ) . As I have noted , Paradise does not set out ... Found insideTaking its title from a work by the surrealist painter, Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself as a ... Found inside – Page 2532010. “A New Bend in the River: The Future of the Indian Novel in English”. The National. http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/a-new-bend-inthe-river# ... Brilliantly orchestrated, at once elegiac and devastating in its portraits of colonial grandeur and pretension, Half a Life represents the pinnacle of Naipaul's career. Found inside3 The novel's other two crucial intertexts, Dante's Inferno and Naipaul's A Bend in the River (a dictator novel, arguably), are also deeply concerned with ... 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