Contrary Awareness: A Critical Study of the Novels of V.S. Naipaul

acceptance achieve acquires action actuality appears artist attempt awareness becomes begins Biswas brings characters colonial comes comic complex continuity creative Critical culture darkness dereliction despair detachment discovers disorder election Elvira emerges escape establishment experience fact fantasy father fear feeling fictional finally finds force freedom Ganesh Guerrillas hand Hindu historical human Ibid identity imagination individual inheritance island Jimmy kind landscape learns leaves living London loss marriage master meaning Miguel Street Mimic moves Mystic narrative narrator nature never novel observes offers once past pattern personality political possibilities present provides Ralph Singh reality relationship represents responsibility ritual Roche role seeks seems sense situation social society stands Stone story success symbol takes things Tulsi turn universe V. S. Naipaul vision West Indian White William Walsh writing