India In The Eyes Of Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul is an Indian-English immigration writer who was born in Trinidad. During his life Naipaul has published over 30 books and over half of them are travelogues in which he always depicts the history, fate and people in the third-world countries. Because of Naipaul’s complicated culture identity, he is an outstanding postcolonial writer and all his works are concerned with postcolonial issues. In order to find his cultural root, Naipaul visits India three times and writes three travelogues separately including An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now. By mainly using Said’s postcolonial theory, through analyzing Naipaul’s changing attitudes in different period towards India, this thesis mainly focuses on the study of Naipaul’s searching for self-identity.The thesis is divided into four parts. The first chapter mainly introduces Naipaul’s life, his works as Indian trilogy and travel literature, and postcolonial theory. The second chapter analyzes Naipaul’s Indian trilogy in details. By analyzing Indian religious faith, caste system, and social life, this chapter deals with Naipaul’s changing attitudes towards his motherland. The third chapter focuses on Naipaul’s progresses of self-identity searching. The last chapter is conclusion.