A critical study of the works of V.S. Naipaul

本项目旨在研究V.S.奈保尔，他的著作无视后殖民理论的协议。文学专业的学生对奈保尔的作品直截了当的诋毁和令人不安的沉默，导致他们对奈保尔作品的起源及其与后殖民批评的关系缺乏认真的关注。这个项目将强调后殖民文本，而不是后殖民理论和批评。它将使用奈保尔·塔尔萨档案来揭示材料本身的困难。作为对文本变体的细读，它们的传播和接受将展示一位后殖民作家在形式、美学和意识形态方面的斗争。

This project aims to study V.S. Naipaul, whose books defy the protocols of post-colonial theory. Literature students have met Naipaul’s books with outright denigration and unnerving silence, leading to an absence of serious engagement with the genesis of his works and their relationship to post-colonial criticism. This project will emphasise post-colonial texts rather than post-colonial theory and criticism. It will use the Naipaul Tulsa archive to uncover the difficulty in the material itself. A close reading of textual variants, their transmission and reception is expected to show a post-colonial writer's struggle with form, aesthetics and ideology.