• ISBN13: 9788126920389
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: July 22, 2018
• Pages: 216
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 390 grams

V.S. Naipaul is a Trinidad-born Nobel Prize-winning British writer of Indian descent. He is best known for his early comic novels set in Trinidad, his later more serious novels of the wider world, and his autobiographical chronicles of life and travels.
His realist fiction and application of postcolonial observations has made him a popular and widely read author. His canon has received appreciation for its meticulous political perspective and its questioning of the political ideologies on which society and culture have been based. He equips his observation and satirical technique with a keen political sense in order to project the idea of cultural dismissal, something which is a consequence of the destructive influences such as colonialism, imperialism, racism and cultural/ economic discrimination which has disfigured the meanings of contemporary history.
The book attempts to project the idea and the concept of marginality in the fictional vision and world view of V.S. Naipaul. The text moves from an overview of Naipaul’s bio-literary legacy, saying that he has become a tradition and precursor in his own right, to colonial mimicry as subterfuge where it is established that Naipaul depicts rootlessness as a living experience, rather than as an observation from the fringes. It highlights the fact that Naipaul’s novels like A House for Mr. Biswas transcend provincial boundaries and evoke concepts that are universal in their human implications. The postcolonial disorders and displacements as shown in the novels of Naipaul have been taken up in the subsequent chapters. His preoccupation with the post-imperial Third World and his delineation of the troubled areas of consciousness marked by new spaces of cross-cultural and transnational entanglements occupy an exclusive chapter in the book. The “Summing Up”, which forms the last chapter of the book, attempts to show that although the tone of Naipaul’s writing changed considerably from the broad comedy of The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira to a descriptive manner of Guerrillas and A Bend in the River, his fiction thus far seems to be one piece.
The book will be useful for the students and teachers of English Literature, particularly Postcolonial Literature and researchers in these fields.

R.S. Jhanji, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (English) has teaching experience over 20 years. Presently, he is working as Principal, A.S. College, Khanna (since 2005). He has published a number of research papers and articles in journals of high repute and critical books. He has taken part in many national and international conferences.
Dr. Jhanji has been guiding M.Phil. students from various universities. He is the approved counsellor of IGNOU for M.E.G. Programmes (M.A. English); and member of various examination bodies of Punjab University Chandigarh, and Punjabi University Patiala. His special areas of interest are West-Indian and Anglo-Indian fiction and contemporary critical theory.