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.
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1900-1999
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