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...Sanjay Krishnan The consensus that the postcolonial writer must be on the side of the oppressed prevents critics from grasping the original ways in which V. S. Naipaul’s untypical writings are attuned to the historical predicament of the periphery. Naipaul’s premise is that subjects...

... the Eurocentric canon for a global age while enacting the death of the romance of the novel. The essay has three parts: the first examines V. S. Naipaul's vexed identification with and shadowing of Joseph Conrad; the second discusses J. M. Coetzee's deconstructive interpretation of the national and cultural...

.... Naipaul and of Daniel Defoe and J. M. Coetzee. Although these pairings have often been considered as separate cases, Mukher- jee valuably juxtaposes them to foreground their differing relations to influence and to the form of the novel itself. Conrad becomes for Naipaul a model to be actively...

... or fully narrativized entity. One formula for peripheral realism now — of totalizing proce- dures strongly checked by the taboo on totality — appears in Sanjay Krishnan’s against- the- grain recuperation of V. S. Naipaul. In Naipaul, Krishnan discerns the dialectical quality of a speci cally...

... BOOKS RECEIVED Kegan Paul, 1975. Vol. 1: xi + 448 pp. $21.75. Vol. 2: xi + 549 pp. $26.95. Vol. 3: xii + 487 pp. $26.50. White, Landeg. V. S. Naipaul: A Critical Introduction. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1975. 217 pp. $22.50. Wilt, Judith. The Readable People of George Meredith...

... and New York: Cambridge University Press, European Studies in English Literature, 1988. x + 349 pp. $49.50. Hughes, Peter. V. S. Naipaul. London and New York: Routledge, Contemporary Writers, 1988. 114 pp. $9.95, paper. Kay, Carol. Political Constnictions: Uefoe, Richardson, and Shein...

... wishful thinking: Australian literature is reduced to the work of Patrick White; African literature to that of Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, and Wole Soyinka; and West Indian literature to that of V. S. Naipaul; Canadian and New Zealand writers are absent altogether. Yet we can discern that Ford...

... . “ Modernist Setting .” Modernism/modernity , Print Plus 3, no. 1 . https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/modernist-setting . Gajarawala Toral Jatin . 2012 . “ Fictional Murder and Other Descriptive Deaths: V. S. Naipaul’s Guerrillas and the Problem of Postcolonial Description .” JNT: Journal...

... politics. A Grain of Wheat and Petals of Blood do not write back to Conrad or respond to him as in a dialogue, in the manner of Achebe or V. S. Naipaul; the meanings of his texts do not depend in any way on recog- nizing allusions. Yet...