Self and colonial desire : travel writings of V.S. Naipaul - Dissanayake, Wimal; Wickramagamage, Carmen, 1960- (New York : P. Lang, 1993)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-158) and index.
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Keywords: Naipaul, V. S. -- 1932-2018 -- Travel; Naipaul, V. S. -- 1932-2018; Naipaul, V. S. -- 1932-2018; Naipaul, V.S., -- 1932-; Naipaul, Vidiadhar S; 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; 1900-1999; Autobiographies; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History; Autobiographies