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Title: | Through the Spectacles of a Non-believer: Diasporic Images of the Antilles, Africa and Latin America in V.S. Naipaul’s "A Way in the World" | Authors: | Javangwe, Tasiyana D. | Keywords: | Cultural Identity Cultural identity - Africa Cultural identity - Latin America Cultural identity - Antilles |
Issue Date: | 2009 | Series/Report no.: | Unlsa Latin American Report;Vol. 1 no. 2 | Abstract: | This article seeks to interrogate the fractured identity images of the Antilles, Africa and Latin America in V.S. Naipaul's collection of memoirs and essays in A Way in the World (1994). It argues that Naipaul's reading and interpretation of the cultural and identity crisis in these regions suffers from a self inflicted alienation that has made him unable to appreciate the possibility of a new beginning at the end of slavery, indentureship and colonialism. Naipaul in this regard becomes a typical non-believer whose vision of the Caribbeans, Africa and Latin America is blighted by images of cyclic futility, macabre circumstances of existence, violence and primordial ritualism. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1014 | ISSN: | 0256-6060 |
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