London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin

by Rob Nixon and Rob Nixon

V.S. Naipaul stands as the most lionized literary mediator between First and Third World experience and is ordinarily viewed as possessing a unique authority on the subject of cross-cultural relations in the post-colonial era. In contesting this orthodox reading of his work, Nixon argues that Naipaul is more than simply an unduly influential writer. He has become a regressive Western institution, articulating a set of values that perpetuates political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195067177
• ISBN13: 9780195067170
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"