Naipaul's Truth

by Feder, Lillian

• ISBN13: 9780742508088
• ISBN10: 0742508080
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

Lillian feder illustrates how Naipaul has emerged as one of the world's greatest, and most controversial, living writers.

Author Biography

Lillian Feder is Distinguished Professor Emerita of English, classics, and comparative literature at The City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(24)
Autobiography	25	(54)
Becoming a Writer	25	(17)
``The Traveler's I''	42	(37)
Travel Narratives, History, and Journalism	79	(82)
The Bonds of the Past	80	(27)
Fantasies, Lies, and ``Political Myths''	107	(16)
Continuity and Change: An Idea of Nationhood	123	(11)
Islam---1979; 1995	134	(27)
Fiction	161	(88)
Comic and Tragic Realism	162	(22)
Outsiders Everywhere	184	(21)
Violence, Selfhood, and the Ambiguities of Truth	205	(30)
The Author in History	235	(14)
Afterword	249	(4)
Chronology of Works	253	(1)
V.S. Naipaul
Index	254	(17)
About the Author	271