| Editor's Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 |
| Prologue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 3 |
| The Current State of Naipaul Scholarship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 5 |
PROFILE -- The Irascible Prophet: V. S. Naipaul at Home by Rachel Donadio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas: Poetics of History, Biography, Modernity and Culture by K. D. Verma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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"Strangers to Ourselves": V. S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival as Counter-Discursive Life-(Re) Writing
by Elvira Pulitano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Naipaul in the 1970s: Authorial Preferences and the Symptomatic Reading of Place
by Stuart Murray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Tale of Two Worlds: Naipaul after 9/11
by Timothy Weiss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Naipaul's Women by Gillian Dooley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 88 |
Guerrillas: V. S. Naipaul's Images of the Erotic Goddess
by Sanna Dhahir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Buried Alive: The Gothic Carceral in Naipaul's Fiction
by Ankhi Mukherjee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Frustrated Homelands: V. S. Naipaul and Caribbean Indianness as Despair
by Lisa Outar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Returning to the Repressed: Caribbean Slavery as a Leitmotif in Naipaul's Narratives
by Vivian Nun Halloran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Deterritorializing Trinidad and India: V. S. Naipaul's Diasporic Travels in India
by Harveen Mann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Travel Taking Further: V. S. Naipaul, Travel Writing and the Quest for Postcolonial Identities
by Jacinta Matos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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The Enigma of Arrival: Inverse Authorship, Textualizing Reterritorialization
by Abdollah Zahiri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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V. S. Naipaul: From Displacement to Hybridity? by Judith Levy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Reading the Postcolony in the Center: V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River by Masood Raja . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Rituals of Passivity: Naipaul's Mimetic Book on the South by Ben P. Robertson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Writing for the West: V. S. Naipaul's Religion by Nicole Gyulay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Odd Man Out: V. S. Naipaul and Postcolonial Studies by Jésus Zapata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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The Wounded Word: V. S. Naipaul and the Language of Return by Maureen Shay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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The Dual Vision: Compassion and Cruelty in the Writings of Naipaul by Hatice Ovgu Tuzun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Naipaul and the Illusion of Identity by Nandini Bhautoo-Dewnarain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Negotiating the Changing World: Migrancy and Identity in V. S. Naipaul's Fiction by Yu-yen Liu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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The Look in Ruins: Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival and the Dialectics of Seeing by Sangita Gopal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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The Global Vision of V. S. Naipaul by Raphael Dalleo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Out of the Colonial Cocoon? From The Mimic Men to India: A Million Mutinies Now by Jasbir Jain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Book Reviews
Ranu Uniyal, Random Descent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Eva Monheim, Eat Smart in India: How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure . . . . . . . . . . |
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Abha Patel, A Critical Stage: The Role of Secular Theatre in Pakistan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Summer Pervez, Critical Theory: Perspectives from Asia. . . . . . . . . . . . | 400 |
Rajender Kaur, The Braided Tongue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 404 |
Jean W. Sedlar, A Region in Turmoil: South Asian Conflicts since 1947. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Abstracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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| Advertisements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 422 |
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