The Space Production Of V. S. Naipaul’s Fictions

In2001, what the award of the Nobel Prize for literature to V.S. Naipaul by the Swedish Academy was that for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories.As one of the classic writers of the20th century, V. S. Naipaul’s works focus on space issues greatly. This space is not a simple sense of geography scope, but rather a blend of memories, feelings, and the unique aesthetic experience of history, in order to find out the truth behind the history. This dissertation chooses eight novels of Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas、Half a Life Miguel Street、A Bend in the River. The Enigma of Arrival and the "India Trilogy"(India:A Million Mutinies Now、 An Area of Darkness、India:A Wounded Civilization), and selects characterized regions and spaces of Naipaul’s writings:Trinidad, India, London and Africa, which have certain representation in Naipaul’s Work, through the detailed reading, under the frame of the space production and the third space to observe and study the visual culture within different spaces under Naipaul’s writings. Naipaul, with his distinctive angle of view, has observed digged the cultural production behind these spaces.In addition to the preface and epilogue, this dissertation is divided into three chapters.The introduction describes the present situation of Naipaul and his works at home and abroad research status. At the same time points out that the research emphasis and the significance of this dissertation. The first chapter discusses the travel in Naipaul’s life occupy an important position, and show Naipaul how to meet with different cultural space which is closely related to his unique life experience. The second chapter discussed the power in Naipaul’s fictions have a huge impact among the domestic space, subculture space and heterotopia. The third chapter, though text analysis, summarizes the spatial narrative strategy of Naipaul’s novel. The forth chapter analyses a serious of space imagery in Naipaul’s novels to show "leave" behind these images. It is pointed out that Naipaul chose a way of life on the road forever to solve their identity confusion. The last one concludes why the Naipaul’s works become a classic literature, reveals that Naipaul and his works bring us thinking of modernity.