South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010

Maxey, Ruth

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“…This leads him to conclude that Isabella is like hell, wherein "…we walked in a garden of hell" (p. 158); they are the pretenders, the mimic men: "We pretended to be real, to be learning… we mimic men of the New World, one unknown corner of it…" (p. 157). Maxey (2012) has observed, "The first-person narrative of Naipaul's novel The Mimic Men is preoccupied with postwar questions of home, or rather escape: it is as much about the journeys which propel the bid to find a home as it is about arrival at actual destinations and the decision to remain in one place" (p. 33). As Maxey maintains, Ralph goes to England for higher studies with the desire of a promising "home", to escape the sense of not belonging to Isabella, and to gain a new identity.…”

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Of a Free Man: Downplaying colonial crisis in the discourse of V. S. Naipaul

Karim,

Sharma,

Banu

2023

RJAH

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V. S. Naipaul was one of the most prolific writers of the modern time. His writings fluctuate between a sense of psychological crisis triggered by collapse of colonization towards the midst Twentieth century and the meaning of a free man. In other words, his writings look at what does it take to be a free man in a decolonized world; whether this freedom is achieved at the cost of the crisis or within the crisis, or whether the crisis itself is a part of the freedom. However, the understanding of the answer to these questions in his readers seems to be very limiting. The sense of the crisis and the freedom in him has been understood as something narrowing and damaging. However, this can be contested and the sense of crisis, its cause and affect can be best understood with a point of reference to the idea of “irresponsibility” and “contamination” in Jacques Derrida and Gayatri Spivak. His discourse is a meditation on several world contexts- Indian, European, African and Caribbean for instance. This paper contends to say and establish that the sense of crisis in Naipaul as far as his writings on the Caribbean context are concerned, is not damaging, rather it is an enabling phenomenon ensuring a sense of freedom.

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Of a Free Man: Downplaying colonial crisis in the discourse of V. S. Naipaul

Karim,

Sharma,

Banu

2023

RJAH

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“…Additionally, these works of life-writing and fiction offer role models to future generations of South Asian Americans, helping them find their place in the American literary landscape joining the diasporic wave in the coming years. Maxey (2012)…”

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A Geography of Strangeness: Transcultural Personhood and Fractal Identity in Contemporary South Asian Muslim American Literature

Khorakiwala¹

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for providing a rich, culturally diverse, and stimulating learning environment.This dissertation is a result of my interest in literature and the fascinating world of languages. I express my sincere gratitude to Madame Indubala Ashok for being a wonderful Král (2014) offers this pertinent quote from Riley's work on fractal identities in literature:The impermanence of collective identities in general is a pressing problem for any emancipating movement which launches itself on the appeal to solidarity, to the common cause of a new group being, or an ignored group identity. This will afflict racial, national, occupational, class, religious, and other consolidations. While you might choose to take on being a disabled person or a lesbian, for instance, as a political position, you might not elect to make a politics out of other designations (Riley, 2000, 16). (174)

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Beyond National Literatures: Empire and Amitav Ghosh

Maxey¹

2015

The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature

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South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010

Cited by 4 publications

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Of a Free Man: Downplaying colonial crisis in the discourse of V. S. Naipaul

Of a Free Man: Downplaying colonial crisis in the discourse of V. S. Naipaul

A Geography of Strangeness: Transcultural Personhood and Fractal Identity in Contemporary South Asian Muslim American Literature

Beyond National Literatures: Empire and Amitav Ghosh

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