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Naipaul's strangers / Dagmar Barnouw.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnouw, Dagmar.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trinidadians--Foreign countries--History--20th century.
- Trinidadians.
- Travelers' writings--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings.
- Cultural pluralism in literature.
- Intercultural communication in literature.
- Strangers in literature.
- Islam in literature.
- Islamic countries--In literature.
- Islamic countries.
- Pakistan--In literature.
- Pakistan.
- Iran--In literature.
- Iran.
- Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932---Criticism and interpretation.
- Naipaul, V. S.
- Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932---Travel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (196 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Winner of the Nobel Prize, Naipaul has traveled throughout the world, looking at its varied cultures and seeking out others' stories, recording and transforming them. His engagement with postcolonial cultures informs his novels, such as Guerrillas and A Bend in the River. However, it is his documentaries (such as Among the Believers and Beyond Belief) and his works that combine actual and fictional histories and memories (Finding the Center, The Enigma of Arrival, and A Way in the World) that best exhibit a growing awareness of the complexities of cultural difference and the incompleteness an
- Contents:
- Introduction : cultural plurality and cultural value
- Understanding strangers
- Postcoloniality and historicity
- Stories of other lives : novels
- Stories of other lives : documentaries ; among the believers : an Islamic journey
- Stories of other lives : documentaries ; beyond belief : Islamic excursions among the converted peoples : Iran
- Stories of other lives : documentaries ; beyond belief : Islamic excursions among the converted peoples : Pakistan
- Uncertain histories : finding the center and the enigma of arrival
- Uncertain histories : a way in the world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-171) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07202-1
- 0-253-10640-0
- 0-253-10975-2
- 9786612072024
- OCLC:
- 56769996
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