Authority and Authorship in V.S. Naipaul
Description
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.
Keywords
Literary CriticismAmericanSemiotics & TheoryLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative
2009Book
Author(s)Imraan Coovadia
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9780230615359
LanguageEnglish
