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Journal articles on the topic "V.S. Naipaul"

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Maksimenko, Ekaterina Dmitrievna. "The problems of reader’s experience and the search for style in V. S. Naipaul's essayistic writing." Litera, no. 5 (May 2021): 40–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2021.5.35357.

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This article conducts a chronological reconstruction of the key milestones of the reading path of V. S. Naipaul, as well as reviews the problems of his reader’s experience and the search for writing style. Emphasis is placed on the creative and personal relationship between V. S. Naipaul and his father S. Naipaul, who was his teacher and mentor, developed his literary taste, aptitude and style of the future Nobel laureate. Their collaboration draws the interest of researchers based on the fact that namely S. Naipaul introduced world literature to his son, affected his choice of books, and helped to understand a different sociocultural context. The author reveals the impact of the Russian writers (Gogol, Tolstoy) and the Spanish picaresque novel (“Lazarillo de Tormes”) upon writing style of V. S. Naipaul; as well as determines the reading preferences of V. S. Naipaul at a mature age. Among the authors who considerably influenced V. S. Naipaul in different periods of his creative path, the author names R. Kipling, D. Defoe, J. R. R. Tolkien, and J. Conrad. The analytical overview of the “writer's library” and his reading preferences allows carrying out a more systematic, consistent, and logical examination of V. S. Naipaul's works. The idea of the circle of authors and writings that considerably influenced the creative personality of V. S. Naipaul gives the key to the analysis of quotations, borrowings, allusions and reminiscences, i.e. the problems of intertextuality in his prose fiction. V. S. Naipaul's essayistic writing has not been published in the Russian language; this article introduces it into the Russian scientific discourse in literary studies.

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Mishra, Vijay. "Reading the Tulsa V S Naipaul Archive." Media International Australia 180, no. 1 (July 24, 2021): 32–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x211010778.

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In 1993, the University of Tulsa purchased the V S Naipaul papers and installed the V S Naipaul Archive, principally a paper archive, a year later. In this essay, which is also a homage to the late Professor Tom O’Regan, I examine the value of archives, a scholar’s use of them and the ‘Freudian impressions’ or latent texts embedded in in them. Although once established an archive can acquire mystical power, in reading it, one has to be conscious of processes of selection and redaction built into the archive. One ‘Freudian impression’ that requires attending to is the role of Naipaul’s first wife Patricia Naipaul in the growth of the writer’s craft. The archival evidence suggests that his best works were written while she was alive.

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Haraj, Sahar Abdul-Ameer, and Mujtaba Muhammad Al-Helu. "Diaspora in V. S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival." Kufa Journal of Arts 1, no. 26 (May 17, 2016): 23–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.36317/kaj/2015/v1.i26.6132.

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One of the most successful writers, who rose to grasp the reins of the concept of diaspora, is V. S. Naipaul, giving it a new and different shape. He is known for his great ability in investigating various types of diasporas successfully. This research aims at studying diaspora in general, its findings, causes, victims, and outcomes. Then, it moves to analyze diaspora in Naipaul' real life. It, finally, analyzes diaspora in Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival. First, the research strives to make a general perusal of the concept of diaspora. It gives a definition of the concept and its etymology. Next, it investigates the most important features of diaspora in the light of various scholars' theories and viewpoints. Then, it moves to cover different types of diaspora, respectively the Jewish, victim, labor and imperial, inventing, trade, and cultural diasporas. Then, the most significant Naipaulian fingerprints in molding diaspora are investigated. It also reveals the reason behind choosing Naipaul as the case of study. It, moreover, analyzes the traumas of identity loss Naipaul has undergone, due to his successive diasporas. It, additionally, studies Naipaul's struggle in dealing with oblivion and his seeking resort in diaspora for the sake of innovation. In the light of diaspora, this study moves to analyze one of the most significant works of Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival. Finally, the research adopts the task of summing up the study and the main findings, and giving recommendations and suggestions for further study.

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Smith, Angela, and Richard Kelly. "V. S. Naipaul." Modern Language Review 86, no. 3 (July 1991): 696. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3731045.

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Thieme, John, and Fawzia Mustafa. "V. S. Naipaul." Modern Language Review 93, no. 3 (July 1998): 821. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3736546.

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Dasenbrock, Reed Way, and Richard Kelly. "V. S. Naipaul." World Literature Today 64, no. 2 (1990): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40146577.

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Naipual, V. S., and Adrian Rowe-Evans. "V. S. Naipaul." Transition, no. 75/76 (1997): 192. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2935405.

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Henry, Paget. "V. S. Naipaul." CLR James Journal 24, no. 1 (2018): 13–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/clrjames2018241/27.

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Jussawalla, Feroza, and Bruce King. "V. S. Naipaul." World Literature Today 69, no. 1 (1995): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40151084.

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Hamner, Robert D. "Recommended: V. S. Naipaul." English Journal 74, no. 6 (October 1985): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/816905.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "V.S. Naipaul"

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Cader, Roshan. "V.S. Naipaul : homelessness and exiled identity." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1446.

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Calello, Lucia Maria Rosa Delia, Gaetano Roberto De, and Marilena Parlati. "Diaspora, violenze e globalizzazione nei testi di V. S. Naipaul." Thesis, Università della Calabria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10955/1336.

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Labaune-Demeule, Florence. "V. S. Naipaul : "L'énigme de l'arrivée : l'éducation d'un point de vue /." Lyon : Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3, Langues, cultures et sociétés, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41335774f.

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Issu de: Thèse de doctorat--Analyse du discours--Lyon 3, 1999. Titre de soutenance : Analyse des marques stylistiques du point de vue narratif dans deux romans de V. S. Naipaul : "A house for Mr Biswas" et "The enigma of arrival.

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Labaune-Demeule, Floreence. "Analyse des marques stylistiques du point de vue narratif dans deux romans de V. S. Naipaul : "A house for Mr Biswas" et "The enigma of arrival"." Lyon 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999LYO31002.

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Cette etude du point de vue narratif dans deux romans de v. S. Naipaul se divise en deux parties principales, la premiere consacree au roman a house for mr biswas (1961), la seconde au roman plus recent qu'est the enigma of arrivai (1987). Les bases d'une analyse stylistique precise seront posees dans la premiere partie, qui se subdivisera en trois sous-parties: le point de vue du narrateur, le point de vue des personnages, et le controle de la distance (point de vue du lecteur). On abordera d'abord le degre de presence du narrateur, son degre d'autorite, la subjectivite de son point de vue ainsi que son role dans la coherence textuelle. Puis, le role joue par le point de vue des personnages dans la caracterisation, et les points de vue reflechis seront etudies, ainsi que les modes d'expression du point de vue des personnages. La troisieme sous-partie sera consacree aux marques de distanciation que sont l'ironie et la comedie, et aux elements createurs de sympathie et d'empathie. Cette analyse conduira a observer que le point de vue developpe dans a house for mr biswas peut etre qualifie de point de vue existentiel. L'etude de the enigma of arrivai mettra a jour les marques du point de vue empirique, ou l'observation et l'experience individuelle jouent un role essentiel, ainsi que les marques du point de vue repetitif, circulaire ou cyclique. On verra en quoi le point de vue narratif ainsi defini pourra etre qualifie de point de vue metaphysique, et on s'attachera a montrer la filiation existant entre ces deux oeuvres distantes d'un quart de siecle.

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Alliot, Bénédicte. "Figurations du temps dans l'oeuvre de toni morrison et v. S. Naipaul." Paris 7, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA070009.

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La remise en question de l'histoire par les ecrivains afro-americains (ici, toni morrison, a travers the bluest eye, beloved et jazz) et caribeens (v. S. Naipaul a travers the enigma of arrival et a way in the world) repond a un devoir d'exhumation du passe pour remedier a l'histoire mutilee de la communaute et opposer a l'histoire officielle, partielle et partiale, la memoire qui permet a l'individu de restaurer la parole interdite et d'enclencher un processus identitaire qui l'ancre dans un espace-temps ou il peut s'appartenir. L'espace est d'abord le lieu de l'absence, ou l'individu issu des colonies ou de l'esclavage est exile a lui-meme : la litterature coloniale dit en effet le desir impossible d'appropriation et de mimetisme. Ceci amene l'ecrivain de couleur contemporain (par exemple, e. K. Brathwaite, wilson harris ou david dabydeen pour les caraibes, ou encore chinua achebe pour l'afrique, en sus des deux auteurs etudies plus en profondeur) a dire le sensible, a exhumer les corps absents, le regard disant l'absence de l'autre. Ainsi, chez naipaul francisco miranda est pris comme l'exemple de l'echec du regard exotique qui aboutit a une image de l'indescriptible. Ceci conduit a une perception eclatee du sujet qui, en dejouant une esthetique occidentale au depart source d'alienation, va doter son regard d'une perspective. Si dans beloved la memoire retrouvee vient parfois nourrir le present, il n'en demeure pas moins qu'elle achoppe sur les traumatismes de l'histoire, et que le passe (celui des humiliations et de l'horreur) reste alors a jamais dans le domaine de l'indicible. Seul naipaul semble proposer une vision prismatique du sujet caribeen, caracterise par sa multiplicite, et se logeant dans un espace-temps non plus confine a une geographie, mais celui, esthetique, des "temps flottants"
The veracity of historical texts is called into question by afro-american and caribbean writers. For instance, toni morrison's the bluest eye, beloved and jazz and v. S. Naipaul's the enigma of arrival and a way in the world are attempts to recover the past. Morrison and naipaul contrast official, partial historical texts with memory which enables the individual and his community to restore speech and does away with censorship. He may then decolonize the space he lives in by developing a poetics of identity. At first colonials are strangers to themselves and are confined within a dialectics of western mimicry. This leads contemporary postcolonial writers such as e. K. Brathwaite, wilson harris or david dabydeen in the caribbean or chinua achebe in nigeria to question the nature of western/postcolonial worldvision by re-telling parts of the past. Thus to naipaul francisco miranda's blind gaze exemplifies the caribbean fate, and his life is one of chaos and confusion. Finally, a postcolonial scattered perspective emerges. In beloved recovered memory feeds the present. However historical traumas remain for ever unsaid and are obstacles to the emergence of the subject within his community. Naipaul offers a prismatic, plural vision of the caribbean subject - he evolves in a space and time which is not geographically defined, but which elaborates subjective aesthetics, that of "floating times"

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List, Jared Paul. "(De)colonial Narratives: Ruben Dario, V. S. Naipaul and Simone Schwarz-Bart." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1370266680.

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Bolfarine, Mariana. "Espaço e metaficção em A house for Mr. Biswas, de V. S. Naipaul." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-26092011-123338/.

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A presente dissertação propõe um estudo do espaço literário no romance A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), do escritor indo-caribenho V. S. Naipaul. Num primeiro momento, pautamos nossa leitura na relação constituída entre o espaço e o sujeito por meio do estudo dos cronotopos, de Bakhtin, verificando a presença de dois principais temas espaciais: o da clausura, sobre como o espaço influi na constituição da subjetividade dos personagens e o de transição, sobre o deslocamento do protagonista, Mr. Biswas, do espaço rural para o urbano, despertando nele um vislumbre de agência. Realizamos uma análise detalhada do jornal e da educação colonial e, em seguida, enfocamos a casa e seus constituintes estruturais, bem como as possessões que o protagonista acumula ao longo de sua vida. Concluímos que A House for Mr. Biswas é um romance metaficcional que utiliza a metáfora da escrita e da construção da casa para representar o processo de sua própria construção. A metaficção se manifesta por meio da paródia do gênero do romance de formação, já incorporado pela literatura inglesa dos séculos XVIII e XIX, resultando na criação de um novo romance que almeja pertencer à tradição literária estabelecida, mas que, ao mesmo tempo, encontra-se em dívida em relação a ela.
This dissertation examines the concept of literary space in the novel A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), by the Indo-Caribbean writer V. S. Naipaul. We have based our reading upon the relationship between space and subject by means of Bakhtins chronotopes, verifying the presence of two major themes: that of closure, related to the way in which space affects the constitution of the subjectivity of the characters, and that of transition, about the displacement of the protagonist, Mr. Biswas, from a rural to an urban space, awakening in him a glimpse of agency. We have conducted a detailed analysis of the newspaper and of colonial education, and then the focus shifts to the house and its structural components, as well as to the possessions which the protagonist accumulates throughout his life. We conclude that A House for Mr. Biswas is a metafictional novel that uses the metaphor of writing and that of the building of the house in order to represent the process of constructing the novel itself. Metafiction is disclosed through the parody of the formation novel, already incorporated by English literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, resulting in the creation of a new novel, which aspires to become part of the established literary tradition, but that is still, at the same time, is indebted to it.

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Ben, Abbes Hedi. "History and identity in the works of V. S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie." Nice, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990NICE2029.

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Ghosh, Paramita. "Travel writing in the novels of V S Naipaul and Amitav Ghosh : a selective study." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1339.

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Leconte, Marie-Odile. "Un espace, une écriture : aspects du réalisme antillais dans les romans de V.S. Naipaul." Amiens, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993AMIE0007.

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V. S Naipaul appartient à la première génération d'écrivains des Antilles d'expression anglaise, qui se sont exilés à Londres à la fin des années 50. Élevé à la trinité, il est d'origine hindoue. Ses romans reflètent la complexité de cet espace où il est né, qu'il perçoit comme un désordre vain qu'il rejette et dont il cherche à se libérer. Un profond désir d'émancipation représente la force motrice de son oeuvre. L'écriture a fonction thérapeutique alors que l'auteur cherche à ordonner son espace originel. Cette ecriture subit une caresse lorsque Naipaul accepte son héritage hindou et affirme que la réalité est une illusion. Il abandonne alors le réalisme picaresque (l'illusion de la realité) et se tourne vers l'allégorie pour dépeindre le sort de l'individu emporte dans le tumulte d'une societé néo-coloniale. L'oeuvre s'offre à une lecture mythique alors que Naipaul adapte à ses besoins d'écrivain antillais le mythe du paradis perdu. Les romans raconte la perte d'une innocence pré-colombienne, de liens entre la nature et l'homme malgré certaines limites artistiques, l'oeuvre de Naipaul représente un témoignage puissant qui participe à l'établissement d'une mémoire collective antillaise et enrichit la littérature
V. S Naipaul belongs to the furst generation of english-speaking westindian writers who came to london in exile at the end of the 1950's. Brought up in Trinidad of hindu descent, his novels are a reflection of the complexity of the world in which he was born. However, he perceives it as futile and disordered, ultimately rejecting it. His deep desire ro emancipate himself represents the driving force behind work. Writing has a therapeutic value as he tires to come to terms with his world. Naipaul's writing changes dramatically once he acknowledges his hindu ancestry, insisting that reality is an illusion. From then on, he abandons picaresque realism (the illusion of reality) and turns towards allegory to depict man caught up in the turmoil of post-colonial societies. His work acquires a mythical quality as he adapts the myth of the fall to the needs of a west indian writer. His work tells of loss; loss of a pre-columbian innocence and of links between nature and man. Naipaul's are a powerful testimony to our age, not without artistic flaws, but which contributes nonethe less in enriching the collective memory of the west indies and literature as a whole

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Books on the topic "V.S. Naipaul"

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King, Bruce. V. S. Naipaul. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22638-2.

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King, Bruce. V. S. Naipaul. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-3768-1.

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1932-, Naipaul V. S., and Isaacs Jeremy 1932-, eds. V S Naipaul. London: BBC, 1994.

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1953-, Jussawalla Feroza F., ed. Conversations with V. S. Naipaul. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.

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Hayward, Helen. The Enigma of V. S. Naipaul. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230599512.

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V.S. Naipaul. London: Routledge, 1988.

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V.S. Naipaul, man and writer. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006.

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Coovadia, Imraan. Authority and Authorship in V. S. Naipaul. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230622463.

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Mustafa, Fawzia. V.S. Naipaul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Jarvis, Kelvin. V. S. Naipaul: A selective bibliography with annotations, 1957-1987. Metuchen, N.J: Scarecrow Press, 1989.

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Book chapters on the topic "V.S. Naipaul"

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Döring, Tobias. "Naipaul, V. S." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_14389-1.

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King, Bruce. "Introduction." In V. S. Naipaul, 1–16. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22638-2_1.

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King, Bruce. "Miguel Street, The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira." In V. S. Naipaul, 17–35. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22638-2_2.

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King, Bruce. "A House for Mr Biswas and The Middle Passage." In V. S. Naipaul, 36–53. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22638-2_3.

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King, Bruce. "Mr Stone and the Knights Companion and An Area of Darkness." In V. S. Naipaul, 54–64. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22638-2_4.

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King, Bruce. "A Flag on the Island, The Mimic Men and The Loss of El Dorado." In V. S. Naipaul, 65–82. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22638-2_5.

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King, Bruce. "In a Free State." In V. S. Naipaul, 83–97. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22638-2_6.

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King, Bruce. "The Overcrowded Barracoon, ‘Michael X’ and Guerrillas." In V. S. Naipaul, 98–115. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22638-2_7.

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King, Bruce. "‘A New King for the Congo’ and A Bend in the River." In V. S. Naipaul, 116–35. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22638-2_8.

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King, Bruce. "Finding the Centre, The Enigma of Arrival, A Turn in the South and India: A Million Mutinies." In V. S. Naipaul, 136–52. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22638-2_9.

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Conference papers on the topic "V.S. Naipaul"

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Guo, Chunjuan. "Literature Review of V. S. Naipaul's Works." In 2016 5th International Conference on Social Science, Education and Humanities Research. Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/ssehr-16.2016.323.

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Chi Man, LO. "Location of Authentic Identity in V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River." In Annual International Conference on Language, Literature & Linguistics. Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF), 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2251-3566_l31269.

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