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 52
... held all unconverted Hindus in con- tempt . As part of this contempt he spoke to them in broken English " ( FI 39 ) . For Lal conversion was a means to a teach- ing appointment and freedom from the stigma of low - caste birth . Malik ...
... held all unconverted Hindus in con- tempt . As part of this contempt he spoke to them in broken English " ( FI 39 ) . For Lal conversion was a means to a teach- ing appointment and freedom from the stigma of low - caste birth . Malik ...
Page 86
... held . For us this land had ceased to exist . Now it was so ordinary . I did not really want to see more . I was afraid of what I might find , and I had witnesses I knew about those spires and was glad to see them . My grandfather ( had ...
... held . For us this land had ceased to exist . Now it was so ordinary . I did not really want to see more . I was afraid of what I might find , and I had witnesses I knew about those spires and was glad to see them . My grandfather ( had ...
Page 111
... landscape , a society not held together by common interests , there was no true in- ternal source of power , and that no power was real which did not come from the outside " ( MimM 246 Rejecting the Metropolitan Model 111.
... landscape , a society not held together by common interests , there was no true in- ternal source of power , and that no power was real which did not come from the outside " ( MimM 246 Rejecting the Metropolitan Model 111.
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