On V.S. Naipaul's Spatial Writing

This dissertation has made a penetrating study of V. S. Naipaul's Spatial Writing from the New Cultural Geography perspective. As an Indian-English writer, V. S. Naipaul won Nobel Prize for literature in 2001. He is one of the most influential writers in our times. Regarded as "the Father of Caribbean literature", he is considered to be "one of the most creative, most controversial and most outstanding writers of this era.As far back as the sixties of the 20th century, V. S. Naipaul has already been recognized as one of the greatest writers in this age. Apparently, he is an extraordinary marginal writer, he reflects the marginal world with his special identity; actually, the theme of his writing is extraordinarily central. In his writing, he has sensitively reached such most noticeable hot issues of this era as identity, class, race and gender, etc.. His writing has offered the topics for various kinds of present popular critical schools, he and his works become "the arena" of different critical schools, offering the targets for the academia, such as Post colonialism, Feminism, Identity Study, Religious Study, Race study, History Study and the Geography Study. V. S. Naipaul has been being the theme for English literature, Caribbean literature, Post colonialism, immigrant literatures, diaspora Criticism, traveling writer and writing, etc.. However spatial writing is an important issue in his works, and there is almost no profound research in this aspect.This dissertation argues that, the "space" is one of the important aspects in his writing. The space is a kind of active force for constructing V. S. Naipaul's cultural experiences. The existence and writing of V. S. Naipaul embody the distinct spatial...