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On The Writing Postcolonial Homestead Of V.S. Naipaul

Posted on:2005-06-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360125459797Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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In recent years, those writers who care about human being have won the Nobel Prizes. V.S.Naipaul, as a famous contemporary writer in postcolonial literature, have also won the prize in 2001.Naipaul has published more than 30 works in 50 years. All these works are from his experiences in postcolonial Trinidad, or his travels in the postcolonial Indian motherland, or his travels in the postcolonial Third World. The background of his works is very wide. His style has fiction and nonfiction, including long stories, short stories, travel writings, notes, history study, essays and so on. He writes his life, travel and thought in postcolonial homestead with the autobiographical way. This paper will analyze his homestead idea and his writing the postcolonial homestead in those representative works in all his works with postcolonial theory and sociology knowledge.The paper is mainly composed of four chapters. Chapters 1: introduce to Naipaul. It will introduce the background of writing postcolonial homestead of Naipaul, his general works and the foreign and domestic studies on Naipaul. Chapter2: it will discuss the writing the postcolonial Trinidad homestead of Naipaul. Trinidad is the place where Naipaul has his young life and writes more times, he writes the marginal lives in postcolonial Trinidad homestead. Chapters: it will discuss the writing the postcolonial Indian homestead. India, as his race homestead, is his homeland. Naipaul discloses the poor and the confusion in postcolonial Indian homestead in his India trilogies. Chapter4: it will discuss the writing the postcolonial homestead of the Third World. The homestead ideas have transcended here, and Naipaul tells that people live at loose ends in the contemporary postcolonial homestead.
Keywords/Search Tags:Naipaul, Postcolonial, Homestead, Trinidad, India, The Third World
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