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02660aam a22003138i 4500 001 17F378842DF711EAB868BF0597128E48 003 SILO 005 20200103010057 008 190626s2020 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019025485 020 $a 0231193327 020 $a 9780231193320 035 $a (OCoLC)1100782172 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d TOH $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR9272.9 N32 Z7494 2020 100 1 $a Krishnan, Sanjay $e author. 245 10 $a V. S. Naipaul's journeys : $b from periphery to center / $c Sanjay Krishnan. 263 $a 2001 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "The author of more than thirty books and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, V. S. Naipaul (1932-2018) is one of the most acclaimed authors of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most controversial. Naipaul grew up in Trinidad in an Indian immigrant community, and his depiction of colonized peoples has often been harshly judged by postcolonial critics as unsympathetic, misguided, racist, and sexist. Yet other readers praise his work as containing uncommonly perceptive historical and psychological insight. In V. S. Naipaul's Journeys, Sanjay Krishnan rereads Naipaul's work to offer new perspectives on his achievements, shortcomings, trajectory, and complicated legacy. While recognizing the flaws and prejudices that shaped and limited Naipaul's life and art, this book challenges the binaries that have restricted discussions of his writing. Krishnan reads Naipaul as self-subverting and self-critical, engaged in describing his own implication in what he saw as the malaise of the postcolonial world. Krishnan brings together close readings of major novels with considerations of Naipaul's work as a united project, as well as nuanced assessments of Naipaul's political commentary on ethnic nationalism and religious fundamentalism. Krishnan provides a Naipaul for contemporary times, illuminating how his life and work shed light on debates regarding migration, diversity, sectarianism, displacement, and other global challenges"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Naipaul, V. S. $q (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), $d 1932-2018 $x Criticism and interpretation. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Krishnan, Sanjay, $t V. S. Naipaul's journeys $d New York : Columbia University Press, 2020. $z 9780231550253 $w (DLC) 2019025486 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200303022838.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=17F378842DF711EAB868BF0597128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search