DOCSLIB.ORG

Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} a Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul a Turn in the South by V.S

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} a Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul a Turn in the South by V.S Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} A Turn In The South by V.S. Naipaul A Turn In The South by V.S. Naipaul. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Cloudflare Ray ID: 660afff8d86edfd7 • Your IP : 116.202.236.252 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. ISBN 13: 9780394564777. In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn In The South, his first book about the United States, is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the American South -- from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill. From the Trade Paperback edition. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. "Naipaul's chapters honor the diversity that marks the South. Conservatives and liberals, whites and blacks, men and women speak for themselves, and reveal the dark side of the story in their own ways. fascinating and revealing." -- Eugene D. Genovese, New Republic. "His writing is clean and beautiful, and he has a great eye for nuance. No American writer could achieve [his] kind of evenhandedness, and it gives Naipaul's perceptions an almost built-in originality." -- Atlantic Monthly. A Turn in the South. Kijk voor 'A Turn in the South' bij de volgende boekwinkels: A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight and originality we expect from one of our best travel writers. Fascinating and poetic, this is a remarkable book on race, culture and country. 'Naipaul's writing is supple and fluid, meticulously crafted, adventurous and quick to surprise. And, as usual, there's the freshness and originality of his way of looking at things' Sunday Times 'Naipaul writes as if a modern oracle has chosen to speak through him. It is a tissue of brilliantly recorded hearsay, of intense listening by a man with a remarkable ear' New York Times Review of Books 'This is a journey below the Mason-Dixon line into a society riven by too many defeats; the broken cause of the old Confederacy, and the frustrated anger of Southern blacks whose power is circumscribed . It is the best thing outside fiction that I have read on the Old South pregnant with the new since W. J. Cash's The Mind of the South published over fifty years ago' Sunday Telegraph. ISBN 13: 9780330522946. A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight and originality we expect from one of our best travel writers. Fascinating and poetic, this is a remarkable book on race, culture and country. 'Naipaul's writing is supple and fluid, meticulously crafted, adventurous and quick to surprise. And, as usual, there's the freshness and originality of his way of looking at things' Sunday Times 'Naipaul writes as if a modern oracle has chosen to speak through him. It is a tissue of brilliantly recorded hearsay, of intense listening by a man with a remarkable ear' New York Times Review of Books 'This is a journey below the Mason Dixon line into a society riven by too many defeats; the broken cause of the old Confederacy, and the frustrated anger of Southern blacks whose power is circumscribed . It is the best thing outside fiction that I have read on the Old South pregnant with the new since W. J. Cash's The Mind of the South published over fifty years ago' Sunday Telegraph. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and most recently The Masque of Africa, and a collection of correspondence, Letters Between a Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. "Naipaul's chapters honor the diversity that marks the South. Conservatives and liberals, whites and blacks, men and women speak for themselves, and reveal the dark side of the story in their own ways. fascinating and revealing." -- Eugene D. Genovese, New Republic "His writing is clean and beautiful, and he has a great eye for nuance. No American writer could achieve [his] kind of evenhandedness, and it gives Naipaul's perceptions an almost built-in originality." -- Atlantic Monthly. A Turn In The South by V.S. Naipaul. Franklin Library: $10.51. Signed TWO Times,Brand New, First Edition, First Printing, Full Leather Hardcover by The Franklin Library. Note: TheSave Africa Nowlogo that appears on thephotoof the title page doesNOTappear on the book. A Turn in the South. (August 17, 1931 - August 11, 2018) Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.His novels include Mystic Masseur (1957), for which he won the John Llewelln Rys Memorial Prize; The Suffrage of Elvira (1958);Miguel Street (1959), for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award;A House for Mr. Biswas, (1961); Mr. Stone and the Knight's Companion (1963);The Mimic Men,(1967); A Flag on the Island (1967);In a Free State(1971), forwhichhe was awarded the Booker Bend in the River(1979);The Enigma of Arrival(1987);A Way in the World(1994);Half a Life(2001); andMagic Seeds(2004). His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies: British, French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America (1962);An Area of Darkness(1964); The Loss of El Dorado (1969);The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles(1972);India: A Wounded Civilization (1977); A Congo Diary (1980);The Return of Eva Perón and the Killings in Trinidad(1980);Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1980); Finding the Centre: Two Narratives (1984);A Turn in the South (1989);India: A Million Mutinies NowBeyond Belief(1990); Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (1998);Between Father and Son: Family Letters (1999); Reading & Writing: A Personal Account (2000);TheWriter and the World: Essays (2002); A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling (2007); andThe Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief (2010).In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. A Turn in the South was published in the U.S. in January 1989. First Edition, First Printing, The Franklin Library, handSIGNED, in my presence,to full title page. The other signature is signed on a specially bound blank page (see photo 2) by The Franklin Library. No inscription; two full signatures only. From an event featuring V. S. Naipaul at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on October 18, 2010. BONUS: Includes a letter regarding A Turn in the South by the publisher of the Signed First Edition Society. Please only offer if you will pay withinfive days of sale's end. All domestic sales of $25 or more will be wrapped and shipped in a box. If requested, there is a $1.00surchargefor all domestic orders below $25 shipped in a box. Shipping & Handling for USPS Media Mail is$4.49 (includesUSPS Tracking). Additional books shipped together via USPS Media Mail are $1.50 per book. Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate envelopeis$7.95 (includesUSPS Tracking). Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail International Flat Rate envelopeis $38.95. I provide the highest quality author signed, first edition books. 100% authentic guaranteed- This is my COA "Certificate of Authenticity". I won't sell any signed book that I'm not 100% sure is hand signed by the author. I attend this event featuring V. S. Naipaul at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on October 18, 2010. I'm not happy unless you are! Please email any questions. In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among the Believers, A Turn in the South, his first book about the United States, is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the American South -- from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill. from Library Journal. In A Turn in the South, parts of which orginally appeared in the New Yorker, noted essayist and novelist Naipaul travels the American South in an attempt to explore and explain this unique region. Stopping at places as diverse as Atlanta and rural Mississippi, Naipaul develops contacts and sources which span race, class, and sex. He admits that at the start of his journey he had no central theme.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • LYNNE MACEDO Auteur and Author: a Comparison of the Works of Alfred Hitchcock and VS Naipaul
    EnterText 1.3 LYNNE MACEDO Auteur and Author: A Comparison of the Works of Alfred Hitchcock and V. S. Naipaul At first glance, the subjects under scrutiny may appear to have little in common with each other. A great deal has been written separately about the works of both Alfred Hitchcock and V. S. Naipaul, but the objective of this article is to show how numerous parallels can be drawn between many of the recurrent ideas and issues that occur within their respective works. Whilst Naipaul refers to the cinema in many of his novels and short stories, his most sustained usage of the filmic medium is to be found in the 1971 work In a Free State. In this particular book, the films to which Naipaul makes repeated, explicit reference are primarily those of the film director Alfred Hitchcock. Furthermore, a detailed textual analysis shows that similarities exist between the thematic preoccupations that have informed the output of both men throughout much of their lengthy careers. As this article will demonstrate, the decision to contrast the works of these two men has, therefore, been far from arbitrary. Naipaul’s attraction to the world of cinema can be traced back to his childhood in Trinidad, an island where Hollywood films remained the predominant viewing fare throughout most of his formative years.1 The writer’s own comments in the “Trinidad” section of The Middle Passage bear this out: “Nearly all the films shown, apart from those in the first-run cinemas, are American and old. Favourites were shown again and Lynne Macedo: Alfred Hitchcock and V.
    [Show full text]
  • VS. Naipaul: a Bibliographical Update (198 7-94)
    VS. Naipaul: A Bibliographical Update (198 7-94) KELVIN JARVIS JLHIS IS A bibliographical update of my V. S. Naipaul: A Selective Bibliography with Annotations: 195J-198J, covering the period 1987-94. Since 1 g87 (when An Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections appeared), Naipaul has published three books—A Turn in the South ( 1989), India: A Million Mutinies Now ( 1990), and A Way in the World ( 1994)—and more than 18 substantial pieces, in addition to delivering various lectures and acceptance speeches. This checklist is arranged in six parts. Part I contains Naipaul's most recent writings and comments, listed under three head• ings: published books, articles, and interviews, with entries given chronologically. Part II covers recent bibliographical listings of his work. Part III includes 16 full-length books written about him. Part PV lists articles on him in books, reference volumes, journals, and magazines. Part V has book reviews and critical studies of his individual books. And Part VI itemizes doctoral theses exclu• sively or partly on him. Conference papers have featured prominently in the spate of attention Naipaul continues to generate; these papers are usu• ally quite elusive to trace, particularly if they are not published collectively and within a reasonably short time frame. Thus this checklist omits offerings on Naipaul from conferences and all foreign-language citations. It also excludes newspaper articles with imprints prior to 1987. The Enigma of Arrival spans Naipaul's life in England and echoes a finality in his writing career. The protagonist of this novel writes: "with time passing, I felt mocked by what I had already done; it seemed to belong to a time of vigour, now past for good.
    [Show full text]
  • Paradox of Freedom in the Novels of V. S. Naipaul
    International Jour nal of Applie d Researc h 2020; 6(2): 100-102 ISSN Print: 2394-7500 ISSN Online: 2394-5869 Paradox of freedom in the novels of V. S. Naipaul Impact Factor: 5.2 IJAR 2020; 6(2): 100-102 www.allresearchjournal.com Received: 16-12-2019 Amandeep Accepted: 18-01-2020 Abstract Amandeep In addition to upsetting the cultural ties of the colonized people, colonization also led to their uprooting PGT English, AMSSS Ghaso and displacement. There was a massive transplantation of population between the colonies which Khurd, Jind, Haryana, India separated the colonized from their native lands and forced them to accommodate themselves in alien surroundings. This shift of population between the colonies was a deliberate measure taken to make the colonial societies heterogeneous, as homogeneous ones could have caused a political threat to the colonizers. this mixing up of various peoples created grave problems both at the individual and social levels. The intense alienation and sense of homelessness that such colonized individuals experience maybe ascribed to their displacement in the alien environment. Keywords: Paradox, freedom, novels Introduction Cultural colonization accomplished what military conquest alone could not have achieved for the colonizers. It paved its way into the minds of the colonised and made them complaisant victims. This colonization of the minds maimed the psyche of the colonized in a severe way. It robbed them of all originality and instead, instilled in them a dependency complex. The crippling effect of this complex manifests itself in the post independence period in the inability of the former colonized people to stand independently on their own and in their continuing dependence on the West for ideas and technology.
    [Show full text]
  • V.S. Naipaul: from Gadfly to Obsessive
    V.S. Naipaul: From Gadfly to Obsessive Mohamed Bakari* All the examples Naipaul gives, all the people he speaks to tend to align themselves under the Islam versus the West opposition he is determined to find everywhere. It is all tiresome and repetitious. Edward W.Said The Man and the Prize : The announcement of the 2001 Nobel Laureate for Literature in October that year elicited the kind of reaction that was predictable, given the reputation and the choice, that of Sir Vidhiadar Surajparasad Naipaul. Of Indian ancestry, V.S. Naipaul is a grandchild of Hindu Brahmins who found their way to the Caribbean island of Trinidad as indentured labourers to escape the grinding poverty of Utterpradesh. Naipaul’s was just one of a stream of families that were encouraged to migrate to the West Indies from the former British colonies of India and Chinese enclaves in Mainland China. Slavery had been abolished in the British Empire in 1832 and the former African slaves were no longer available to the sugarcane plantations and labour had to be sought from somewhere. In their natural ingenuity the British devised the new institution of indentured labour, which was really a new euphemism for a new form of servitude. Whereas the slaves were forcibly repatriated against their will, the new indentured labourers had the carrot of landownership dangled in front of them, to lure them to places they had no idea of. The new immigrants added a new dimension to an already complex racial situation, by adding the Asian layer to the Carib, European and African admixtures created by Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations, Vol.2, No.3&4, Fall&Winter 2003 243 waves of migration.
    [Show full text]
  • Vol.5.Issue 2. 2017 (April-June)
    Research Journal of English Language and Literature (RJELAL) A Peer Reviewed (Refereed) International Journal Vol.5.Issue 2. 2017 http://www.rjelal.com; (April-June) Email:[email protected] ISSN:2395-2636 (P); 2321-3108(O) RESEARCH ARTICLE HYBRIDITY AND MIMICRY IN V S NAIPAUL’S NOVELS A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS, THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL & HALF A LIFE SUMAN WADHWA Ph D scholar Email:[email protected] ABSTRACT This paper is an attempt to probe into the cross cultural issues occurred due to Diaspora in the writings of V S Naipaul . It highlights the concept of hybridity , mimicry, nostalgia for a lost home, disillusionment of expatriation, fragmentation of the self, exuberance of immigration, assimilation, cultural translation and negotiation through the selected novels of the writer.It examines the feelings of rootlessness and alienation. The term hybridity has become very popular in postcolonial cultural criticism. Diasporas try their best at first to keep their own identity in their own community. But outside of community, their social identity is lost due to their migration from their homeland to adopted country. His novels deal with problematic intercultural relations and hyphenated identities the female characters in their novels count the benefits of gaining privacy, freedom, egalitarianism against the cost of losing the extended family spirituality tradition and status. Key Words: Rootlessness, Multiculturalism, Hybridity, Post colonialism, Displacement. ©KY PUBLICATIONS This paper maps out the Problems of the House For Mr Biswas(1961),The Enigma Of Arrival Indian expatriates and immigrants and brings in light (1987) & Half a life(2001) . their diasporic experience, feeling of rootlessness Postcolonial writers attempt to show and process of hybridization in the hostlands.
    [Show full text]
  • Introduction
    I INTRODUCTION The objective of the thesis has been to explore the rootlessness in the major fictional works of V.S. Naipaul, the-Trinidad-born English author. The emphasis has been on the analysis of his writings, in which he has depicted the images of home, family and association. Inevitably, in this research work on V.S. Naipaul’s fiction, multiculturalism, homelessness (home away from home) and cultural hybridity has been explored. Naipaul has lost his roots no doubt, but he writes for his homeland. He is an expatriate author. He gives vent to his struggle to cope with the loss of tradition and makes efforts to cling to the reassurance of a homeland. Thepresent work captures the nuances of the afore-said reality. A writer of Indian origin writing in English seems to have an object, that is his and her imagination has to be there for his/her mother country. At the core of diaspora literature, the idea of the nation-state is a living reality. The diaspora literature, however, focuses on cultural states that are defined by immigration counters and stamps on one’s passport. The diaspora community in world literature is quite complex. It has shown a great mobility and adaptability as it has often been involved in a double act of migration from India to West Indies and Africa to Europe or America on account of social and political resources. Writers like Salman Rushdie, RohingtonMistry, Bahrain Mukherjee, and V.S. Naipaul write from their own experience of hanging in limbo between two identities: non-Indian and Indian.
    [Show full text]
  • The Mimic Men’
    World Congress on Innovations and Research in Arts, Culture, Literature, Languages, Philosophy and Spirituality Spirit of Severance and Identity Crisis in V.S. Naipaul’s ‘The Mimic Men’ Nidhi Chouhan M.A. English Literature Amity School of Liberal Arts Amity University, Gurgaon, Haryana E-mail: [email protected] Abstract—The dichotomy between the literal meaning and figurative ecclesiastical discipline. Further, the social tension that has connotation of the term ‘identity’ is contested time and again on culminated in its entirety, looks at those precincts of change account of its indefinite and dynamic nature. Due to vast diversity, it which has led to the growth of unrest and abhorrence, becomes difficult to canonize any single culture. Therefore, identity encompassing and taking into account the religious, scientific of an individual becomes even more complex. From the crude early and industrial challenges of the times. Under such profusion of beginnings of this interdisciplinary field of literature, the assertion of identity and its perceivabilityis given utmost prominence. This is uncertainty and chaos, it becomes more difficult to sustain because it gives us a sense of belonging to an extent that its loss with moral earnestness and practice religious values. appearsas loss of self. The following paper seeks to conceptualize the It is the imperialism that kept the minds and souls of the notion of cultural estrangement in the context of ‘The Mimic Men’ by colonized into the shackles of its absolutism. India specifically V.S. Naipaul. is a nation which is well bred under the fetters and regulations Rootlessness and alienation form the influential themes of Naipaul’s of her colonizers.
    [Show full text]
  • The Development of V. S. Naipaul As a Writer
    v. NAIPAUI, AS J3Y ANGELA AHYLIA SEUKERAN, B.A. (Hons.) A Thesis ;3uomittc0. to the 3chool of Grac1ttate Studies in Partial FLl.lfilment of the Requirements for the Degree I':1d.Iaster Uni v8r;:;i ty September 19'15. MASTER OF ARTS (1975) (EnGlish) Hamilton, Ontario TITLl!~: The Development of V. :3. l'Iaipaul as a ~·Jriter. Am:HOR: An.gela Ahylia Seukeran, D. A. (Wcl:laster) SUP2RVI30R: Dr. J. Dale. NUI;;DER OF PAGES ~ VI; 92, ii -----.---AB3TRAc r This thesis explores the themes prevalent in the novels of V. S. Naipaul and examines hi.s development from a regional v/ri ter to one with a more universal appeal. In Chapter One an attempt is made to establish a critical b<;lckground by briefly di.scussinc the ideas revealed in his non-fictional works. Chapter One also discusses the themes of the early ?tree-t.. Chapter TvlO of this thesis deals with the themes of ~r:,. }Io'J.se for Er, Bisvras and I.1r. Stone and the Kni:xhh, Corn-Danion. _... __ ...-__ ._----_._-_. ------_._---------..... _--------- These nov-els are seen as representing a turning point in Naipaul's developr:lent as a \-,11:i te:c. Chapter Three focuses on 1h~._ f,~ir~.:i.9 1\1en and "A Flag on the Island", and sees the se two works as representing a bleaker but Dore philosophical mood by the author. .In Ii ~ Staj:;e is examined in the final Chapte:c of this thesis and Naipaul i s effectiveness is evaluated.
    [Show full text]
  • A Study of VS Naipaul's Miguel Street, Ernest Gain
    Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2012 Short story cycles of the Americas, a transitional post-colonial form: a study of V.S. Naipaul's Miguel Street, Ernest Gaines's Bloodline, and Garbriel Garcia Marquez's Los Funerales de Mama Grande Benjamin Sands Yves Forkner Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations Part of the Comparative Literature Commons Recommended Citation Forkner, Benjamin Sands Yves, "Short story cycles of the Americas, a transitional post-colonial form: a study of V.S. Naipaul's Miguel Street, Ernest Gaines's Bloodline, and Garbriel Garcia Marquez's Los Funerales de Mama Grande" (2012). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 2191. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/2191 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please [email protected]. SHORT STORY CYCLES OF THE AMERICAS, A TRANSITIONAL POST-COLONIAL FORM: A STUDY OF V.S. NAIPAUL’S MIGUEL STREET, ERNEST GAINES’S BLOODLINE, AND GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ’S LOS FUNERALES DE MAMA GRANDE A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Interdepartmental Program in Comparative Literature by Benjamin Forkner License, Université d’Angers, France, 2000 Maîtrise, Université d’Angers, France, 2003 M.A., Louisiana State University, 2004 August 2012 For Valentina Dela Forkner ii Acknowledgments First and foremost, I would like to thank Dr.
    [Show full text]
  • The Confessional Element in Naipaulâ•Žs Fiction
    Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 5 | Issue 2 Article 11 December 2007 The onfesC sional Element in Naipaul’s Fiction Gordon Rohlehr [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/anthurium Recommended Citation Rohlehr, Gordon (2007) "The onfeC ssional Element in Naipaul’s Fiction," Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal: Vol. 5 : Iss. 2 , Article 11. Available at: http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/anthurium/vol5/iss2/11 This Essay is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarly Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal by an authorized editor of Scholarly Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Rohlehr: The Confessional Element in Naipaul’s Fiction Confession has always assumed the confessant’s consciousness of a body of rules or ideals, a prevailing moral and spiritual order against which he or she has transgressed. The process of confession involves acknowledgement of error or crime and taking personal responsibility for having sinned in thought, word and deed. Ideally, the confessant feels sorrow, shame, guilt, and remorse of conscience. The confessant bears a heavy burden of guilt from which he seeks relief. Or he may think of himself as soiled and of confession as the prelude to a cleansing and a renewal of spirit. Confession, sometimes conducted in public before an entire congregation or in private before a single confessor, is meant to be a laying bare, a coming
    [Show full text]
  • Keeping an Eye on Naipaul: Naipaul and the Play of the Visual Jean Antoine-Dunne [email protected]
    Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 5 | Issue 2 Article 2 December 2007 Keeping an eye on Naipaul: Naipaul and the Play of the Visual Jean Antoine-Dunne [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/anthurium Recommended Citation Antoine-Dunne, Jean (2007) "Keeping an eye on Naipaul: Naipaul and the Play of the Visual," Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal: Vol. 5 : Iss. 2 , Article 2. Available at: http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/anthurium/vol5/iss2/2 This Essay is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarly Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal by an authorized editor of Scholarly Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Antoine-Dunne: Keeping an eye on Naipaul: Naipaul and the Play of the Visual The defining characteristic of works of art is not purity of vision, but how well they reflect the tension between themselves and the intellective moments in their midst. Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory The work of art in the 20th and 21st centuries has been deeply transformed by the emergence of cinema, the new art of modernity. Theorists, critics and artists have written much about the importance of cinema to human perception and to ways of seeing. There is little accord in the pronouncements about this art that is often called a “popular” art form. But writers have identified specific areas of overlap and influence. My concern here is to show that Naipaul’s thinking through of his relationship to the world portrayed in his novels is projected in part through the use of techniques and structures absorbed from cinema.
    [Show full text]
  • Experience As Drama in the Works of V.S. Naipaul
    Kunapipi Volume 3 Issue 2 Article 6 1981 Experience as drama in the works of V.S. Naipaul Richard I. Smyer Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Smyer, Richard I., Experience as drama in the works of V.S. Naipaul, Kunapipi, 3(2), 1981. Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol3/iss2/6 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] Experience as drama in the works of V.S. Naipaul Abstract Once while sitting with other tourists in a govemment rest-house in the Egyptian d~sert, V .S. Naipaul witnessed a scene in which some Italians dropped food near their tables to entice local children to come within striking range of an attendant's whip - a cruel game staged so that the Italians could take snapshots. Impulsively, the enraged Naipaul sprang from his chair, grabbed the whip, and threatened to report the incident to the authorities. Ended at this point, the anecdote might exemplify the triumph of honest emotion over· callousness. However, as Naipaul's account of the incident suggests, the show continued. Under the cool, appraising stare of the Italians, Naipaul himself became the selfconscious star of an unrehearsed mini-melodrama - a role in which he felt 'exposed, futile'. This journal article is available in Kunapipi: https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol3/iss2/6 RICHARD I. SMYER Experience as Drama in the Works of V.S.
    [Show full text]