London Calling

V. S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin

Автор: Rob Nixon

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Издател: Oxford University Press Inc

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V. S. Naipaul stands as the most lionized literary mediator between First and Third-World experience...

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Автор

Rob Nixon

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

1992

страници

238

EAN

9780195067170

ISBN

0195067177

Enbook ID

04512799

Издател

Oxford University Press Inc

Теглоt

427

Размери

147 x 217 x 24

Пълно описание

V. S. Naipaul stands as the most lionized literary mediator between First and Third-World experience and is ordinarily viewed as possessing a unique authority on the subject of cross-cultural relations in the post-colonial era. In contesting this orthodox reading of his work, Nixon argues that Naipaul is more than simply an unduly influential writer. He has become a regressive Western institution, articulating a set of values that perpetuates political interests and representational modes that have their origin in the high imperial age. Nixon uses Naipaul's travel writing to probe the core theoretical issues raised by cross-cultural representation along metropolitan-periphery lines. In successive chapters he explores the relation between multi-cultural identity and the rhetorical conventions of exile; the imperial undertow in travel writing as a genre; the tensions between ethnographic and autobiographical modes of authority; and the magnetic pull of the Conradian tradition in figuring the third World. In the penultimate chapter, Nixon analyses the importance of the discourse of primitivism as a means of abrogating Third World experiences of historical change and, in particular, of minimalizing the role of indigenous resistance. Finally, with reference to economic theories of dependency, he critiques the vision, popularized by Naipaul, of the post-colonial world as divided between mimic and parasitic Third World nations on the one hand and, on the other, the benignly creative societies of the West.

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