V.s naipaul as a Travelogue writer

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V.S naipaul: The unsatiable traveler, travelogue writer, experience of a traveler, travelogue is not a book for traveler, but it is a book by traveler, the author revisits a place and unveils the full richness of people, India trilogy


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V.S Naipaul as a Travelogue writer (1932-2018)

Travelogue A film, a book or illustrated lecture about the places visited by or experience of a traveler Is it a book for traveler? No, it is a book by traveler

Insatiable Traveler The author or a fictional surrogate visits or revisits a place and unveils the full richness of its people . As a writer, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul remains an insatiable traveler; his journeys are interior as well as geographic. .

Travelogues written by Naipaul The Middle Passage “India” Trilogy An Area of Darkness India: A wounded Civilization India: A Million Mutinies Now

The middle Passage In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. He relates the ghastly episodes of the region’s colonial past and shows how they continue to inform its language, politics, and values Deft and prescient portrait of T rinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societies. Countries haunted by legacies of slavery and colonialism.

An Area of Darkness First visited India in 1962 A fearful traveler For him India was “An Area of Darkness. Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanities. An Area of Darkness  also abounds with Naipaul’s strikingly original responses to India’s paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. 

India: A Wounded Civilization The second book in V.S. Naipaul’s acclaimed Indian trilogy. prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write  India: A Wounded Civilization . India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, has not yet found an ideology of regeneration . It is also a generous description of one man’s complicated relationship with the country of his ancestors.

India: A Million Mutinies now 27 years later from his first visit , he again returned to I ndia and re-evaluated the nation and his perception  He now found in India, "a central will, a central intellect, a national idea." Naipaul notes the economic growth and its associated emancipation of the various peoples of India .

Works cited GUSSOW, MEL. "Travel Plus Writing Plus Reflection Equals V.S. Naipaul." The new york times company (1991). Naipaul , V.S. An Area of Darkness. vintage, 2002. —. India: A wounded civilization. Pan Macmillan, 2010. —. The middle Passage. Penguin random house: Vintage, 2002. wikipedia contributors. wikipedia , the free encyclopedia. 12 february 2018. 13 august 2018 < https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=India:_A_Million_Mutinies_Now&oldid=825340187>.