Authority and Authorship in V.S. Naipaul

by Imraan Coovadia

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023061535X
• ISBN13: 9780230615359
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.3"