The present book explores the socio-literary scenario of West Indies and focuses on the urgency of going beyond contemporary lite-rary schools of criticism to elucidate and de-cipher the genuine understanding of Wilson Harris’s oeuvre. It argues that the imaginative......
It is one of the pioneering studies on the mind and art of Naipaul. It has detailed chapters on The Mystic Masseur, The Suf-frage of Elvira, The Mimic Men, A House for Mr. Biswas, Mr. Stone, The Knight’s Companion, Guerrillas, A Bend in the Ganges & In a Free State.
The book analyzes Naipaul’s quest for order and identity in his novels with the third world setting, namely The Mystic Masseur, The Suffrage of Elvira, A House for Mr. Biswas, The Mimic Men, In a Free State, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River and A Way in the World.
West Indian literature is best known for the fiction it has produced. George Lamming, Wilson Harris, Samuel Selvon and V.S. Nai-paul are amongst the most significant novel-ists of the twentieth century. The volume highlights the contribution made by these writers and also......
Naipaul is one of the best-known English novelists of the modern times; his popularity reached its zenith when he received the Nobel Prize for literature. The volume, a collection of recent essays on his writings, aims at paying the fittest tribute to the great novelist.
