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

这个项目旨在研究V.S.奈保尔，他的书蔑视后殖民理论的协议。文学专业的学生对奈保尔的作品不屑一顾，令人不安地保持沉默，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探讨。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。通过对文本变体及其传播和接受的细读，我们可以看到后殖民作家在形式、美学和意识形态方面的挣扎。

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.