Mimic man vs naipaul biography
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Synopsis
With a preface by the author.
V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men is a profound, moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial man’s experience in the post-colonial world.
Born of Indian heritage, raised in the British-dependent Caribbean island of Isabella, and educated in England, forty-year-old Ralph Singh has spent a lifetime struggling against the torment of cultural displacement. Now in exile from his native country, he has taken up residence at a quaint hotel in a London suburb, where he is writing his memoirs in an attempt to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the cultural paradoxes and tainted fantasies of his colonial childhood and later life: his attempts to fit in at school, his short-lived marriage to an ostentatious white woman. But it is the return to Isabella and his subsequent immersion in the roiling political atmosphere of a newly self-governing nation – every kind of racial fantasy taking wing – that ultimately provide Singh with the necessary insight to discover the crux of his disillusionment.
‘A Tolstoyan spirit . . . The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist’ John Updike, New Yorker
288 pages
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288 pages
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- "Zohreh Moghimi was born in Iran, where she received her school education. She received her BA in English Language and Literature from Bilkent University, Ankara in 1992; and her MA in the same field from the same institution in 1994. Her MA dissertation was on the relationship between the real and the ideal in the odes of John Keats. She is currently completing a Ph.D. on postcolonial fiction and V.S.Naipaul at Hacettepe University, Ankara. She currently works as a lecturer in the department of English Language and Literature at Bilkent University Papers presented include "The Intersection between Postmodernism, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature" (1998).
"The Mimic Men" (1967) presents and examines a newly independent country in the Caribbean, the island of Isabella, with a pessimistic view: the previous colony has now become independent but the formerly colonized people of the island are unable to establish order and govern their country. The colonial experience has caused the colonized to perceive themselves as inferior to the colonizer. Colonial education and cultural colonization have presented the English world, with its rich culture, as a world of order, discipline, success, and achievemen
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The Mimic Men
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The Reproduce Men job a unconventional by V. S. Naipaul, first publicised by Andre Deutsch tear the UK in 1967.
Introduction
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Plot summary
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