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Author: Sanjay Krishnan (Associate Professor, Boston Universty)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231193320
ISBN 10: 0231193327
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 04 February 2020
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Format: Hardback
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Drawing heavily on archival materials made available only recently, V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to Center offers a defense and rereading of Naipaul by substantially reframing the objectives of his writing. Naipaul's work is unlike that of other postcolonial writers, contends Krishnan, in avoiding both easy position taking and the consolations of identity. Accessing Naipaul's ways of seeing, Krishnan gives us a new, self-subverting Naipaul for the twenty-first century. -- Timothy Bewes, author of <i>The Event of Postcolonial Shame</i> In sane and lucid prose, Krishnan deftly navigates the ideological maelstrom that swirls around Naipaul's reputation, to deliver a fully grounded reappraisal of the relationship between the author's work, his biography, and his political moment. This study sets new parameters for evaluating Naipaul's literary legacy. -- Rhonda Cobham-Sander, author of <i>I and I: Epitaphs for the Self in the Work of V. S. Naipaul, Kamau Brathwaite, and Derek Walcott</i> In V. S. Naipaul's Journeys, Sanjay Krishnan sees Naipaul's obsessions as not only diagnosing, but also performing, the deranging effects of empire. Krishnan argues that Naipaul should not be understood as a reactionary critic of postcolonial cultures, but as someone who reported on them from the inside. Krishnan's conclusions will be debated for a while to come, but his rigorous engagement with Naipaul's oeuvre will reanimate the author for the next generation of critics. -- Suvir Kaul, author of <i>Of Gardens and Graves: Kashmir, Poetry, Politics</i>
In V. S. Naipaul's Journeys, Sanjay Krishnan sees Naipaul's obsessions as not only diagnosing, but also performing, the deranging effects of empire. Krishnan argues that Naipaul should not be understood as a reactionary critic of postcolonial cultures, but as someone who reported on them from the inside. Krishnan's conclusions will be debated for a while to come, but his rigorous engagement with Naipaul's oeuvre will reanimate the author for the next generation of critics. -- Suvir Kaul, author of <i>Of Gardens and Graves: Kashmir, Poetry, Politics</i> Drawing heavily on archival materials made available only recently, V. S. Naipaul: From Periphery to Center offers a defense and rereading of Naipaul by substantially reframing the objectives of his writing. Naipaul's work is unlike that of other postcolonial writers, contends Krishnan, in avoiding both easy position taking and the consolations of identity. Accessing Naipaul's ways of seeing, Krishnan gives us a new, self-subverting Naipaul for the twenty-first century. -- Timothy Bewes, author of <i>The Event of Postcolonial Shame</i>
Drawing heavily on archival materials made available only recently, V. S. Naipaul: From Periphery to Center offers a defense and rereading of Naipaul by substantially reframing the objectives of his writing. Naipaul's work is unlike that of other postcolonial writers, contends Krishnan, in avoiding both easy position taking and the consolations of identity. Accessing Naipaul's ways of seeing, Krishnan gives us a new, self-subverting Naipaul for the twenty-first century. -- Timothy Bewes, author of <i>The Event of Postcolonial Shame</i>
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Sanjay Krishnan is professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of Reading the Global: Troubling Perspectives on Britain’s Empire in Asia (Columbia, 2007).
