The author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018) is one of the most acclaimed authors of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most controversial. Before settling in England, Naipaul grew up in Trinidad in an Indian immigrant community, and his depiction of colonized peoples has often been harshly judged by critics as unsympathetic, misguided, racist, and sexist. Yet other readers praise his work as containing uncommonly perceptive historical and psychological insight.
In V. S. Naipaul’s Journeys, Sanjay Krishnan offers new perspectives on the distinctiveness and power of Naipaul’s writing, as well as his shortcomings, trajectory, and complicated legacy. While recognizing the flaws and prejudices that shaped and limited Naipaul’s life and art, this book challenges the binaries that have dominated discussions of his writing. Krishnan reads Naipaul as self-subverting and self-critical, engaged in describing his own implication in what he saw as the malaise of the postcolonial world. Krishnan brings together close readings of major novels with considerations of Naipaul’s work as a united project, as well as nuanced assessments of Naipaul’s political commentary on ethnic nationalism and religious fundamentalism. Krishnan provides a Naipaul for contemporary times, illustrating how his life and work shed light on debates regarding migration, diversity, sectarianism, displacement, and other global challenges.
"Krishnan’s jargon-free study will prove invaluable to serious readers and Naipaul scholars alike." - Publishers Weekly
"Krishnan suggests that Naipaul’s ambiguous ironies mean he can never be read as simply for or against the colonized. What is uniquely insightful about Naipaul’s work is, this book argues, intimately connected to what is most problematic about it." - Times Literary Supplement
"A bold and comprehensive reading of the controversial writer...highly recommended." - Choice
"Krishnan argues persuasively that the way Naipaul used his own life story and experiences, including his interactions with the people he met on his travels, enabled him to create 'an original form of postcolonial writing'…the importance of his nuanced approach to Naipaul’s life and work cannot be overstated." - Transnational Literature
"In demonstrating how Naipaul’s work attends to multiple viewpoints and undoes the search for a master narrative about the postcolonial Caribbean, V. S. Naipaul's Journeys contributes a comprehensive, meticulously researched, and insightful new study of a life and a literary corpus." - Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry
"In Sanjay Krishnan’s excellent study...we follow two parallel but counter-directional trajectories: that of the writer’s life—‘from periphery to centre’, as the book’s subtitle has it—and that of the work—which took the writer back from the imperial centre of the world to the peripheral societies that he was perpetually drawn to." - Literary Activism
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In V. S. Naipaul’s Journeys, Sanjay Krishnan offers new perspectives on the distinctiveness and power of Naipaul’s writing, as well as his shortcomings, trajectory, and complicated legacy. While recognizing the flaws and prejudices that shaped and limited Naipaul’s life and art, this book challenges the binaries that have dominated discussions of his writing. Krishnan reads Naipaul as self-subverting and self-critical, engaged in describing his own implication in what he saw as the malaise of the postcolonial world. Krishnan brings together close readings of major novels with considerations of Naipaul’s work as a united project, as well as nuanced assessments of Naipaul’s political commentary on ethnic nationalism and religious fundamentalism. Krishnan provides a Naipaul for contemporary times, illustrating how his life and work shed light on debates regarding migration, diversity, sectarianism, displacement, and other global challenges.
"Krishnan’s jargon-free study will prove invaluable to serious readers and Naipaul scholars alike." - Publishers Weekly
"Krishnan suggests that Naipaul’s ambiguous ironies mean he can never be read as simply for or against the colonized. What is uniquely insightful about Naipaul’s work is, this book argues, intimately connected to what is most problematic about it." - Times Literary Supplement
"A bold and comprehensive reading of the controversial writer...highly recommended." - Choice
"Krishnan argues persuasively that the way Naipaul used his own life story and experiences, including his interactions with the people he met on his travels, enabled him to create 'an original form of postcolonial writing'…the importance of his nuanced approach to Naipaul’s life and work cannot be overstated." - Transnational Literature
"In demonstrating how Naipaul’s work attends to multiple viewpoints and undoes the search for a master narrative about the postcolonial Caribbean, V. S. Naipaul's Journeys contributes a comprehensive, meticulously researched, and insightful new study of a life and a literary corpus." - Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry
"In Sanjay Krishnan’s excellent study...we follow two parallel but counter-directional trajectories: that of the writer’s life—‘from periphery to centre’, as the book’s subtitle has it—and that of the work—which took the writer back from the imperial centre of the world to the peripheral societies that he was perpetually drawn to." - Literary Activism
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