Journey Through Darkness: The Writing of V.S. NaipaulStudie over het werk van de West-Indische schrijver Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (9132- ). |
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Page 50
... English is the language of law and insult . Naipaul presents conversation in dialect if it is conducted in English and in formal English if the speakers use Hindi . One example of how the languages are used to indicate the seriousness ...
... English is the language of law and insult . Naipaul presents conversation in dialect if it is conducted in English and in formal English if the speakers use Hindi . One example of how the languages are used to indicate the seriousness ...
Page 51
... English . That is the language for business and rudeness . If you wrote in English , he could not mistake your feelings ' " . Language also reveals the way in which acculturation takes place . There are some discussions which simply can ...
... English . That is the language for business and rudeness . If you wrote in English , he could not mistake your feelings ' " . Language also reveals the way in which acculturation takes place . There are some discussions which simply can ...
Page 127
... English without firing a shot . He was acquitted but three years later the Spanish king reversed the decision after the issue was revived by the French residents of Trinidad , who were not pleased about being consigned to the English ...
... English without firing a shot . He was acquitted but three years later the Spanish king reversed the decision after the issue was revived by the French residents of Trinidad , who were not pleased about being consigned to the English ...
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accept achieve African Area of Darkness attempt aware become believe Bend Biswas Biswas's Black Power Bobby chaos characters colonial corruption culture discovers Dorado dream El Dorado English European experience failure fantasy father fear feel Finding the Centre Ganesh George Lamming Guerrillas Hindu House human identity individual Islam island Jimmy Jimmy's journey Knights Companion London Loss Malik metropolis Middle Passage Miguel Street Mimic Mimic Men MimM Miranda Mystic Masseur Naipaul seems Naipaul's fiction Naipaul's writing narrator Negro never nonfiction novel novelist offer past political portrays postcolonial racial Ralegh Ralph Singh readers reality relationship reveals River Roche Salim Santosh satire seeks Seepersad Naipaul sense slave social society Spanish Stone story Suffrage of Elvira suggests theme things tion Trinidad Trinidadian truth Tulsis understanding V. S. Naipaul village violence vision vision of disorder West Indian words Wounded Civilization Yvette