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Primary Texts: Works by V.S. Naipaul
Novels:
The Mystic Masseur (1957), London: Picador.
The Suffrage of Elvira (1958), London: Picador.
Miguel Street (1959), London: Picador.
A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), London: Picador.
Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion(1963), London: Picador.
The Mimic Men (1967), London: Picador.
A Flag on the Island (1967), London: Picador.
In a Free State (1971), London: Picador.
Guerrillas (1975), London: Picador.
A Bend in the River (1979), London: Picador.
The Enigma of Arrival (1987), London: Picador.
A Way in the World (1994), London: Picador.
Half a Life (2001), London: Picador.
The Night watchman’s Occurrence Book: And Other Comic Inventions (Stories) – (2002) London: Picador.
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief, (2010) New York & Toronto: Alfred Knopf.
NonFiction and Travelogues:
The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies – British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America (1962), London: Picador.
An Area of Darkness (1964), London: Picador. Select Bibliography 202
The Loss of El Dorado (1969) London: Picador.
The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles (1972), London: Picador.
India: A Wounded Civilization (1977), London: Picador.
A Congo Diary (1980) London: Picador.
The Return of Eva Perón and the Killings in Trinidad (1980) London: Picador.
Among the Believers (1981), London: Picador.
Finding the Center (1985), London: Picador.
A Turn in the South (1989) London: Picador.
India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990), London: Vintage.
Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples (1998), London: Abacus.
Between Father and Son: Family Letters (1999, edited by Gillon Aitken). New York: Alfred Knopf.
Literary Occasions (2003), Ed. Pankaj Mishra. London: Picador.
A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling, (2007) London: Picador.
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief, (2010) New York & Toronto: Alfred Knopf.
Criticism of V.S. Naipaul’s Works and Other Relevant Secondary Sources:
Abrams, M. H. (2000) A Glossary of Literary Terms, Singapore: Harcourt Asia Pvt. Ltd.
Ahmad, Aijaz. (1992) In Theory: Classes, Nations and Literatures, New Delhi: OUP.
Ananthamurthy, U. R. (1976) (tran. A. K. Ramanujan) Samskara. New Delhi: OUP.
Anderson, Benedict. (1991) Imagined Communities, London: Verso.
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin Eds.( 1995) The postcolonial Studies Reader, London and New York: Routledge.
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. (1989) The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Postcolonial Literatures. London: Routledge. Select Bibliography 203
Bala. Suman (2003) V. S. Naipaul: A Literary Response to the Nobel Laureate. New Delhi: Khosla Publishing House.
Ball. John Clement (2003) Satire and the Postcolonial Novel: V. S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie. New York: Routledge.
Barnouw. Dagmar (2003) Naipaul's Strangers. New York: Indiana University Press.
Bhabha, Homi K.( 1994) The Location of Culture, London: Routledge.
Boehmer, Elleke. (2005) Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, 2nd Ed. New York: OUP.
Braziel, Jana Evans and Anita Mannur Eds. (2003) Theorizing Diaspora, London: Blackwell.
Chakrabarty, Bidyut, Ed. (2003) Communal Identity in India: Its Construction and Articulation in the Twentieth Century, New Delhi: Oxford UP.
Chambers, Ian. (1994) Migrancy, Culture, Identity, New York: Routledge.
Chandra, Bipan, Amales Tripathi & Barun De. (1994) Freedom Struggle, New Delhi: National Book Trust.
Cronin, Richard. (1989). Imagining India. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Cudjoe. Selwyn R (1988) V. S. Naipaul: A Materialist Reading. Massachusetts : University of Massachusetts Press.
Davies, Carole B. (1994) Black Women Writing and Identity: Migration of a Subject, London and New York: Routledge.
Desai, Gaurav & Supria Nair. (2005) Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Dissanayake, Wimal. Self and Colonial Desire: Travel Writings of V. S. Naipaul. (1993) New York: P. Lang.
Dooley. Gillian (2000) V. S. Naipaul: Man and Writer. Columbia:University of South Carolina Press. Select Bibliography 204
Feder, Lillian. (2001) Naipaul’s Truth: The Making of a Writer, New Delhi: India log Publications.
Feroza Jussawalla. Ed(1997)Conversations with V. S. Naipaul. Mississippi: Jackson Univ. Press.
Fitzpatrick, Peter. Ed. (1992). Racism and the Innocence of Law. In David T. Goldberg Anatomy of Racism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
French, Patrick. (2008) The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul, London: Picador
Fukuyama, Francis. (2002)The End of History and the Last Man, New York: Perennial, Harper Collins.
Gandhi, Leela.( 2005) Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction, New Delhi: Oxford.
Gillon Aitken (Ed.) (2000). Between Father and Son: Family Letters. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Gorra. Michael (1997) After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Gurr, Andrew. (1981) Writers in Exile: The Identity of Home in Modern Literature, Brighton: Harvester Press.
Hall, Stuart. (2003 ) “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” in Jana Evans Braziel and Anita Mannur Eds. Theorizing Diaspora, London: Blackwell.
Hall. Stuart . “Minimal Selves” in Houston A. Baker, Manthia Diawara and Ruth H. Lindeborg Ed. (1996) Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Hammer, Robert D. (1977) Critical Perspectives on V. S. Naipaul. Washington D.C.: Three Continents Press.
Hamner Robert D. (Ed)(1979) Critical Perspectives on V. S. Naipaul. London: Heinemann.
Hamner, Robert. (1973) V. S. Naipaul. New York: Twayne. Harvester. Select Bibliography 205
Hassan. Dolly (1989) V. S. Naipaul and the West Indies. London: Peter Lang.
Hawley, Jack S. (1991, Summer). Naming Hinduism. Wilson Quarterly 15(3), 20‐34.
Hawley, John C., ed. (2004) Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, London: Greenwood Press.
Hayward, Helen. (2002) The Enigma of V. S. Naipaul: Sources and Contexts, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Howe, Irving. (1979, 13 May). A Dark Vision. The New York Times Book Review, 1, 35 38.
Hughes, Peter. (1988). V. S. Naipaul. London: Routledge.
Huntington, Samuel P. (1996) The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order, New York: Simon & Schuster.
Inden, Ronald D. (1990). Imagining India. Oxford: Blackwell.
Jarvis, Kelvin. V. S. Naipaul: A Selective Bibliography with Annotations, (1989.) Metuchen, N. J: Scarecrow.
Jussawala, Adil. (1974) New Writing in India. London: Penguin books.
Jussawalla, Feroza F, (Ed.) (1997) Conversations with V. S. Naipaul, U of Mississipi Press.
Kakar, Sudhir. (1978) The Inner World. New Delhi: OUP
Kamra. Shashi (1990) The Novels of V. S. Naipaul: A Study in Theme and Form. New Delhi: Prestige Books.
Kelly, Richard. (1989.) V. S. Naipaul. New York: Continuum.
Khan, Akhtar Jamal. V. S. Naipaul: A Critical Study. (1998) New Delhi: Creative Books,
Khan, Maulana Wahiduddin. (2002) Islam Rediscovered: Discovering Islam from its Original. New Delhi: Good word Books.
King, Bruce, (Ed.) (1998) New National and Postcolonial Literatures: An Introduction, New York: Oxford UP. Select Bibliography 206
King, Bruce. (1993)V. S. Naipaul. London: MacMillan.
Kumar. Amitava (2002) The Humour & the Pity: Essays on V. S. Naipaul. New York: Buffalo Books.
Levy. Judith(1995) V. S. Naipaul: Displacement and Autobiography. New Delhi: Garland. London: Picador.
Loomba, Ania. (2007) Colonialism/ Postcolonialism, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge. Macmillan India.
Mahanta, Namrata R. (2004) V. S. Naipaul: The Indian Trilogy, New Delhi: Atlantic.
Mason. Nondita (1986) The Fiction of V. S. Naipaul. New Delhi: World Press.
Mc Sweeny, Kerry (1983) Four Contemporary Novelists: Angus Wilson, Brain Moore, John Fowles, V. S. Naipaul. Montreal: Mc Gill UP.
Melko, Matthew. (1969) The Nature of Civilizations, Boston: Porter Sargent.
Memmi, Albert. (1973) The Colonizer and the Colonized (first published in French in1957), Paris: Payot.
Mill, James. (1998) The History of British India, London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy.
Mohit K. Ray. (2002) V. S. Naipaul: Critical Essays. Delhi: Atlantic Publisher.
Morris. Robert K (1975) Paradoxes of Order: Some Perspectives on the Fiction of V. S. Naipaul. Missouri: University of Missouri Press.
Mustafa, Fawzia. (1995) V. S. Naipaul, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Nandy, Ashis. (1999) Traditions, Tyranny and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness, New Delhi: Oxford UP.
Nightingale, Peggy. (1987) Journey through Darkness: The Writing of V. S. Naipaul. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press.
Nixon, Robert. (1993). London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
P. Hughes. (1988)V. S. Naipaul. London: OUP Select Bibliography 207
Panwar Purbhi. (Ed.) (2003)V. S. Naipaul: An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Delhi: Pencraft International.
Panwar, Purabi. (2000) India in the Works of Kipling, Forster and Naipaul: Postcolonial
Practice in Postcolonial Literatures, London and New York, Routledge.
R. Hammer.(Ed) (1979 ) Critical Perspectives on V. S. Naipaul. London: Heinemann
Rai. Sudha (1982) V. S. Naipaul: A Study in Expatriate Sensibility. New York: Arnold‐ Heinemann.
Ramadevi, N. (1996) The Novels of V. S. Naipaul: Quest for Order and Identity, New Delhi: Prestige.
Rao. K. I. Madhusudana (1982) Contrary Awareness: A Critical Study of the Novels of V. S. Naipaul. Chennai: Centre for Research on New International Economic Order.
Ray, Mohit K. (2002) V. S. Naipaul: Critical Essays, New Delhi: Atlantic.
Robertson, George. (ed) (1994). Travellers’ Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement. London: Routledge.
Rowe‐Evans , Andrian. (1971): V. S. Naipaul: Interview. Transition, December.
Rushdie, Salman. (1991) Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism (19811991), London: Granta Books
Rutherford, Jonathan, ed. (1990) Identity: Community, Culture, Difference, London: Lawrence and Wishart.
Said Edward. Culture and Imperialism (1993), London: Vintage.
Said, Edward W. (1978), Orientalism New Delhi: Penguin Books.
Spivak, Gayatri C. (1990) The Postcolonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies and Dialogues, New York: Routledge.
Thapar, Romila. (2002) The Penguin History of Early India, New Delhi: Penguin. Select Bibliography 208
Theroux, Paul. (1998) Sir Vidia’s Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents, Boston: Houghton Miffin.
Theroux, Paul. (1972.) V.S. Naipaul: An Introduction to his work. London: Deutsch.
Tyson, Lois. (2006) Critical Theory Today, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge.
Weiss. Timothy (1993) On the Margins: The Art of Exile in V.S. Naipaul. Massachusetts Press : University of Massachusetts Press.
White, Landeg. (1975) V. S. Naipaul: A Critical Introduction, London: Macmillan.
Woodward, Kathryn, ed. (1997) Identity and Difference, London: Sage.
Young, Robert C. (2003) Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction, New York: Oxford UP.
Journals and Articles:
Al‐Turabi, Hassan. “The Islamic Awakening’s Second Wave,” New Perspectives Quarterly, 9 (Summer 1992); 52‐55.
Ansari, M.H. “Understanding the Indian Muslim.” Frontline, Vol. 21‐Issue 23, Nov. 06‐ 19, 2004
Bakari, Mohammad. “V. S. Naipaul: From Gadfly to Obsessive,” Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations, Vol. 2, No. 3&4, Fall and Winter, 2003; 253.
Bhabha, Homi K. “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse.” Gaurav Desai & Supria Nair Eds. Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism, Oxford: Berg, 2005; 543.
Chaudhary. Hegla. “V. S. Naipaul’s Changing Vision of India: A Study of An Area of Darkness and India: A Wounded Civilization, Literary Half Yearly 23, No. 1 (January 1982):98‐114.
Dalrymple, William. “Sir Vidia Gets it Badly Wrong.” Outlook, March 15, 2004. Select Bibliography 209
Ganguly, Keya. “Migrant Identities, Personal Memory and the Construction of Selfhood,” Cultural Studies, 6.1. (1992; 27‐50).
Gilsenan, Michael. “Manager of Stories.” London Review of Books, September 3, 1998.
Hall, Stuart. “Thinking the Diaspora: Home Thoughts from Abrod.” Gaurav Desai & Supria
Nair Eds. Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism, Oxford: Berg, 2005; 543.
______. “Who Needs Identity?” Questions of Cultural Identity, Ed. Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay. London: Sage, 1996; 1‐17.
Harnandez, Jennifer Browdy de. “Postcolonial Blues: Ambivalence and Alienation in the Autobiographies of Richard Rodriguez and V. S. Naipaul.” Auto/Biography Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2, Fall 1997; 151‐65.
JanMohamed, Abdul R. “The Economy of Manichean Allegory: The Function of Racial Difference in Colonialist Literature.” Critical Inquiry, Vol. 12, No. 1, Autumn, 1985; 59‐87.
Malak, Amin. “Naipaul’s Travelogues and the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Complex”, Crosscurrents, Summer, 2006; 261‐268.
Marudhan, G. Review of Beyond Belief by V. S. Naipaul. Critique, March 24, 2004.
Mercer, K. “Welcome to the Jungle: Identity and Diversity in Postmodern Politics” in J. Rutherford ed. Identity: Community, Culture, Difference, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1990: 43.
Naipaul V. S. “A Million Mutinies,” India Today 18 August 1997:36‐39.
______. “On Being a Writer,” New York Review of Books 23 April 1987:7.
Nixon, Rob. “London Calling: V. S. Naipaul and the License of Exile,” South Asian Quarterly, 87:1, 1998; 1‐37.
Rushdie, Salman. “Cry my beloved country,” The Hindu, 18th June, 2000; viii. Select Bibliography 210
Trivedi, Harish. “Locating Naipaul: Not English, not Indian, not Trinidadian,” Journal of Caribbean Studies, spring, 2008.
Wattas, Rajnish. “Making of a Writer and his Identity.” Spectrum, December 7, 2003.
Interviews
Naipaul, V. S. with Bernard Levin. ( June 23, 1983 ) “A Perpetual Voyager,” The Listener; 16‐17.
______. with Elizabeth Hardwick. (May 13, 1979 )“Meeting V. S. Naipaul,” New York Times Book Review; 1, 136.
______. with Ian Hamilton. (July 30, 1971)“Without a Place,” Times Literary Supplement,; 897‐9
______. With L. K. Sharma. (July 11, 1994 ) “Fatigue of a Multi‐Layered Writer,” Delhi, The Sunday Times of India; 3.
______. With Mohini Kent. (1997) “I always had to Force Myself upon the World,” First Quarter,59‐63.
______. With Rahul Singh. (18 Feb. 2002) "I'm not English, Indian. I'm my own man: Naipaul," The Times of India (New Delhi ed.)
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