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17 juillet 2021
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Nabil Baazizi, « V. S. Naipaul: The (Hi)Story of a pro-Western-very Eastern-storyteller », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10.4000/ces.5199
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This essay investigates the re-readings and rewritings of colonial canonical texts from the perspective of the colonized. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1902) has been a particularly influential text for V. S. Naipaul. His novel A Bend in the River (1979) can be seen as a rewriting of Conrad’s novella. However, it also reflects his ambivalence towards the post-colonial struggle for decolonization as well as the persistent traditional Western conceptions of Africa and the Africans. This essay therefore explores the enigmatic in-betweenness and double-edgedness of Naipaul’s work.