Authority and Authorship in V.S. Naipaul

Coovadia, I.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2009-07-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230615359

DOI: 10.1057/9780230622463

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 188