A Postcolonial Studay Of V.S.Naipaul’s India Trilogy

V.S.Naipaul is an immigrant writer with multicultural background. Since the1950s, his literary works have received more and more attention. They reflected theconflicts between the history and the present, the current situations of past colonies aswell as life of immigrants and people in the third world. Naipaul has visited hismotherland India three times and wrote three books recording his trips: An Area inDarkness (1964), A Wounded Civilization (1975) and A Million Mutinies Now (1988)Based on his India Trilogy, the thesis aims to explore how he gradually changedhis impressions about his motherland India and the way he reflected those innerchanges from the travelogues. Throughout the three books, Naipaul tried to embracethe traditional culture but was somehow kept away from it due to his past experiences.He combined fiction with record, integrated a perfect narration method to create anew channel to observe the world, that is to observe the society, make on-spot record,refer to history, find out material through traveling, which finally fill the blanks of hisown background.In the beginning, the thesis gives a summary about Naipaul’s career life, relevantresearch works about his books, methodologies which will be used in the thesis aswell as the significance of the research about Indian Trilogy.In the main parts, the thesis gives detailed analysis about Naipaul’s differentimpressions of India, which changed from total disappointment to acceptance andoptimism. The thesis analyzes Naipaul’s narration perspective, which changes from aninsider to an outsider, making the narration more and more objective, and Naipaul’sunique narration ways to express his feelings. The travelogues are a mix of differentnarrations, ranging from quotations of historical documents, famous literary work,news to description of characters and conversations. In the conclusion part, the thesissummarized how Naipaul retrieved his cultural identity through writing.