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Ever since he started his literary career in the late 50s, Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul has always been embroiled in controversies. As a dissector of civilizations, cultures and histories across the world, Naipaul has constantly interrogated post-colonial and post-imperial issues and realities that have shaped contemporary societies and their politics. From the West Indies and India to Africa, the Islamic world and South America, Naipaul has charted his ...
Contemporary Diasporic Literature: Writing History, Culture, Self addresses a seminal change that has presided over the late twentieth century literary history. Conceding that exile, immigration and homelessness are primordial human conditions submitting to a literary/aesthetic resolution or interrogation, this volume underlines their contemporary, centralizing, homogenizing effect on culture and self on the one hand, and the numerous examples of new ...