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Naipaul, V. S.--(Vidiadhar Surajprasad),--1932- --Criticism and interpretation, Marginality, Social, in literature, West Indies--In literature, Exiles in literature.
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1992
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Naipaul, V. S.--(Vidiadhar Surajprasad),--1932- --Criticism and interpretation, Marginality, Social, in literature, West Indies--In literature, Exiles in literature.
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On the Margins
The Art of Exile in V. S. Naipaul
Timothy F. Weiss
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Copyright 1992 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 92-5719 ISBN 0-87023-820-5 Designed by Edith Kearney Set in Bodoni Book by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Weiss, Timothy. 1949 On the margins: the art of exile in V. S. Naipaul / Timothy F. Weiss. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-87023-820-5 (alk. paper) 1. Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprased), 1932- Criticism and interpretation. 2. Marginality, Social, in literature. 3. Exiles in literature. I. Title. PR9272.9.N32Z96 1992 823'.914dc20 92-5719 CIP
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Excerpts from "The City" in The Complete Poems of Cavafy, copyright 1961 and renewed 1989 by Rae Dalven, is reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
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For Charlotte
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
3
1 Carnival
21
2 A House for Mr Biswas
46
3 Metahistory and Marginality
65
4 The Greater Shipwreck
87
5 An Exile in the Motherland
113
6 The Recursive Voyage
133
7 The Fourth World
165
8 Exile and Enigma of Arrival
194
9 Toward a New Pluralism
215
Notes
227
Bibliography
259
Index
273
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Acknowledgments
I am grateful to and wish to thank those who were part of the writing of this book, especially Zohreh Sullivan, Jim Hurt, Herbert Marder, Bruce Michelson, and other colleagues at the University of Illinois who read and commented on drafts and helped me think about the material from new perspectives. Although a basic draft of the book was written in 1987-88, new chapters were added and old chapters were revised in 1988-90 while I was a Fulbrighter in Tunisia. I thank the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars for providing me with the opportunity to lecture and write in North Africa and Robert Krill and others at the American Cultural Center in Tunis for making my stay in Tunisia so pleasant and productive. I thank Selwyn R. Cudjoe, who offered significant suggestions that enabled me to bring a more localized historical context to bear on Chapters 1 and 2 of the book, and Robert K. Morris, who offered significant suggestions concerning development, organization, and style. I thank Clark Dougan, Senior Editor, for his counsel and encouragement; Brenda R. Hanning, the copyeditor; and the proofreaders and others at the University of Massachusetts Press who were part of the production process. Finally, I thank Charlotte Weiss for her caring and support.
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Introduction
... a British intellectual long before I was ten, already an alien in my own environment among my own people, even my own family. C. L. R. James, Beyond a Boundary
The West Indian person is subjected to successive waves of cultural alienation from birth-a process that has its origins embedded in a mosaic of cultural fragments .... The European fragment is brought into sharper focus than the others. Jan Carew, "The Caribbean Writer and Exile"
The old lady cut a sprig for me. I stuck it in the top buttonhole of my open shirt. I smelled it as I walked back to the hotel. Jasmine, jasmine. But the word and
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