V.S. Naipaul: Second Edition

Book Details

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Author: Manjit Inder Singh

• Edition: 2nd

• Language: English

• ISBN: 8170337038

• Pages: 264

• Cover: Hardback

• Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.5 x 1.6 inches

• Release Date: 1 December 2002

• Sale Territory: India

About the Book

This in-depth critical study examines the literary journey of Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul, a writer who has consistently engaged with some of the most controversial and complex issues of our time. Since beginning his career in the late 1950s, Naipaul has acted as a sharp dissector of civilizations, cultures, and histories, traversing regions from the West Indies and India to Africa, the Islamic world, and South America.

Through his speculative yet skeptical lens, Naipaul has explored virtually every dimension of humanity’s interaction with power, authority, and oppression, unflinchingly addressing uncomfortable themes like post-colonial displacement, inauthenticity, multiracialism, and the vast diasporic dispersal across continents.

Manjit Inder Singh’s work delves into Naipaul’s place in the diaspora, offering fresh insights into his role as a writer and situating his oeuvre within dominant critical theories and literary practices of contemporary times. The book sheds light on how Naipaul’s writing reflects the tensions and contradictions of identity in a post-imperial, globalized world.

About the Author

Manjit Inder Singh teaches English at Punjabi University, Patiala. His academic interests span Indian, African, West Indian, Canadian, and other Third World literatures. He has authored an anthology of poems titled Milestones and the critical work The Poetics of Alienation and Identity: V.S. Naipaul and George Lamming.