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Dissanayake, Wimal.

Self and colonial desire : travel writings of V.S. Naipaul / by Wimal Dissanayake, Carmen Wickramagamage. - New York : P. Lang, 1993. - vii, 160 pages ; 24 cm. - Studies of world literature in English ; vol. 2 . - Studies of world literature in English ; vol. 2. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-158) and index.

1. Travel Writing as Colonial Narrative -- 2. The Colonial Gaze and Caribbean Societies -- 3. The Ambiguities of Textual Production -- 4. Enlightenment Values and Cultural Geographies -- 5. Discursive Space and Self-fashioning -- 6. Questions of Reterritorialization and Human Achievement -- 7. Tropes of Mutiny and Reimagining of India -- 8. Epilogue.

ISBN: 0820419753 9780820419756

LCCN: 92043638

Nat. Bib. No.: 93,N07,0504 dnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 930183169 DE-101 006172815 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Naipaul, V. S. 1932-2018 --Travel.
Naipaul, V. S. 1932-2018
Naipaul, V. S. 1932-2018
Naipaul, V.S., 1932-
Naipaul, Vidiadhar S.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Authors, Trinidadian--Biography--History and criticism.
Travelers' writings--History and criticism.
Travel writing--History--20th century.
Decolonization in literature.
Desire in literature.
Self in literature.
Autobiography.
Authors, Trinidadian--Biography.
Autobiography.
Decolonization in literature.
Desire in literature.
Self in literature.
Travel.
Travel writing.
Travelers' writings.
Reiseliteratur
Reisverhalen.
Engels.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Autobiographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Autobiographies.

LC Class. No.: PR9272.9.N32 / Z66 1993

Dewey Class. No.: 828/.91403 B