V. S. Naipaul: A Materialist Reading

by Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe

Book Overview

Because Naipaul's work occupies such an important place in English literature today, it is necessary to understand the forces that shape his work and the issues with which he is concerned. If this study raises some of the more important questions about Naipaul's work and demonstrates that is cannot be seen as an unproblematic guide to post colonial "reality," then it would have gone a long way toward opening up the terrain in which the most meaningful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870236202
• ISBN13: 9780870236204
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher