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 43
... called up its own truth . For me to write the story of a man like my father was , in the beginning at any rate , to attempt pure fiction , if only because I was writing of things before my time . The trans- planted Hindu - Muslim rural ...
... called up its own truth . For me to write the story of a man like my father was , in the beginning at any rate , to attempt pure fiction , if only because I was writing of things before my time . The trans- planted Hindu - Muslim rural ...
Page 49
... called upon to play his part in Hindu ritual , though he realizes that the home of his sister's low - caste husband indicates lowness in no way . Nevertheless , his Brahmin sensibility renders him unwill- ing to stock lard or salt beef ...
... called upon to play his part in Hindu ritual , though he realizes that the home of his sister's low - caste husband indicates lowness in no way . Nevertheless , his Brahmin sensibility renders him unwill- ing to stock lard or salt beef ...
Page 134
... called a " simple " issue in a society where 128 degrees of colour are separately and minutely defined and labelled except in the sense that everyone can be classed as being like oneself or not ; only an egocentric evaluation can be ...
... called a " simple " issue in a society where 128 degrees of colour are separately and minutely defined and labelled except in the sense that everyone can be classed as being like oneself or not ; only an egocentric evaluation can be ...
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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