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The Transcription of Identities: A Study of V. S. Naipaul's Postcolonial Writings

By Min Zhou

Book information

Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Year
2015
ISBN
9783839428542
DOI
10.1515/9783839428542
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1186146 bytes)
Series
Cultural Studies; 43
Edition
1. Aufl.
Pages
226\226
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 06:38:41

Description

Based on a study of V. S. Naipaul's postcolonial writings, this book explores the process of postcolonial subjects' special route of identification. This enables the readers to see how in our increasingly diverse and fragmented post-modern world, identity is a vibrant, complex, and highly controversial concept. The old notion of identity as a prescribed and self-sufficient entity is now replaced by identity as a plural, floating and becoming process. Min Zhou shows how postcolonial literature, among other artistic forms, is one of the most representative reflections of this floating identity.

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