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Formative Dislocation in V. S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival
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The Enigma of Arrival represents a significant shift in V S Naipaul's corpus as mentioned in this paper, where the author focuses on himself as a narrating subject who is the product of a disturbance that he cannot overthrow, only channel.Abstract:
The Enigma of Arrival represents a significant shift in V S Naipaul’s corpus In earlier work Naipaul used realist techniques to depict the periphery as the product of a historical derangement In Enigma , Naipaul focuses on himself as a narrating subject who is the product of a disturbance that he cannot overthrow, only channel The originality of The Enigma of Arrival lies in its attempt to engage, at the level of form, the disorienting effects of the periphery’s induction into modernityread more
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-Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development
TL;DR: Unseasonable youth as mentioned in this paper is a recent contribution to the study of the British bildungsroman, and it also offers considerable insight into the intercourse between modernism and colonialism as well.
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A Bend in the River
John Cooke,V. S. Naipaul +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast of Central Africa has left the coast to make his way in the interior, there to take on a small trading shop of this and that, sundries, sold to the natives.
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V. S. Naipaul and the Worlds of Postcolonial Realism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a case study for exploring the links between realist form and the global imagination as they evolve over a 60-year perio... career as a novelist, travel writer, and journalist.
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Enclosure, Dispersal, and The Enigma of Arrival
TL;DR: The Enigma of Arrival as discussed by the authors explores the tension between logics of enclosure and dispersal in the romantic lyric form of the Enigma, and argues that the tension motivates the novel's formal project.
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The World Republic of Letters
TL;DR: The Figure in the Carpet Part I: The Literature, Nation, and Politics as mentioned in this paper is a collection of essays about the history of literature in the world, with a focus on the role of women in literature.
On Some Motifs in Baudelaire
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Misplaced Ideas: Essays on Brazilian Culture
Roberto Schwarz,John Gledson +1 more
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The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire
TL;DR: Baudelaire Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaires Central Park On Some Motifs in Boudelaire Notes Index as mentioned in this paper.