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 96
... ships lay only in the imagination " ( FI 157 ) . Frankie's per- sonality seems to make him susceptible to the sense of col- onial dislocation which characterizes the island sensibility . In one passage , as he attempts to define reality ...
... ships lay only in the imagination " ( FI 157 ) . Frankie's per- sonality seems to make him susceptible to the sense of col- onial dislocation which characterizes the island sensibility . In one passage , as he attempts to define reality ...
Page 150
... ship becomes a microcosm of the crowded modern world on the move . The Egyptian Greeks epitomize the dilemma of ... ships like ours had taken them out of Egypt . Now , briefly , they were going back ... " ( FS 9-10 ) . Alienation ...
... ship becomes a microcosm of the crowded modern world on the move . The Egyptian Greeks epitomize the dilemma of ... ships like ours had taken them out of Egypt . Now , briefly , they were going back ... " ( FS 9-10 ) . Alienation ...
Page 159
... ship , the narrator feels a prison- er , that he will " never be a free man again " ( FS 85 ) . Here is the central irony of the whole book . The colonials seek free- dom outside their restricting colonies , only to discover the still ...
... ship , the narrator feels a prison- er , that he will " never be a free man again " ( FS 85 ) . Here is the central irony of the whole book . The colonials seek free- dom outside their restricting colonies , only to discover the still ...
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