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Imraan Coovadia - Authority and Authorship in V.S. Naipaul - 9780230615359 - V9780230615359
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Authority and Authorship in V.S. Naipaul

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Description for Authority and Authorship in V.S. Naipaul Hardback. This book traces the ways in which problems of imaginative authority and authorship structure the fiction and non-fiction of V.S. Naipaul and resonate in postcolonial literature. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 10. Weight in Grams: 322.
This book traces the ways in which problems of imaginative authority and authorship structure the fiction and non-fiction of V.S. Naipaul and resonate in postcolonial literature. Imraan Coovadia argues that the post-colonial societies Naipaul studies in novels such asA Bend in the RiverandGuerillasare defined by the fragility of their authority. Coovadia demonstrates through close reading, how Naipaul, born in Trinidad to an Indian family and resident of the United Kingdom,asserts hisimaginative authority over many different situations across the globe through a complex literary rhetoric.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230615359
SKU
V9780230615359
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Imraan Coovadia
IMRAAN COOVADIA is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Reviews for Authority and Authorship in V.S. Naipaul
"In this sharp and subtle book, Coovadia demonstrates that V.S. Naipaul s authority as an interpreter of non-Western societies is built on a set of literary devices, such as the cold joke, that pre-empt humanitarian fellow-feeling and help the reader laugh along with Naipaul at post-colonial suffering. In a series of brilliant close readings of his books on the Caribbean, ... Read more

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