Search Results for V. S. Naipaul

...Eric D. Smith Central to the polarizing discussions of the late-period work of V. S. Naipaul has been the author’s apparent faithfulness to methods—and political presuppositions—derived from nineteenth-century British models of literary realism. This essay explores Naipaul’s pivotal late-period...

... to draw out the sword, retains its incendiary and dangerous power. John Clement Ball is professor and chair of the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. He is the author of Satire and the Postcolonial Novel: V. S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie (2003...

... diagnosed here by the colonel, and elsewhere by postcolonial writers ranging from V. S. Naipaul and Ng g wa Thiong o to Tayeb Salih and Mohsin Hamid. Like the protagonists in Salih s Season of Migra- tion to the North (1966) and Hamid s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), Zafar mimic[s] the Westerners...