01656nam a22001697a 4500999001900000008004100019100002300060245011700083260002800200300003200228520098000260650009001240773002801330906001401358942000701372952010701379  c520419d520419220913b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aJayaram, N.934037  aEthnicity, self-knowledge and literary sensitivity: A sociological reading of V.S. Naipaul’s first four novels  aSociological Bulletin    a71(1), Jan, 2022: p.133-149  aTaking a cue from G. S. Ghurye’s Shakespeare on Conscience and Justice (1965) this lecture in his memory explores the role of ethnicity in shaping the self-knowledge and literary sensitivity of V. S. Naipaul. Naipaul’s life traverses three distinct cultures: the Hindu culture brought by his ancestors who came as indentured migrants to Trinidad, the Creole culture of colonial Trinidad and the emerging modern culture of western civilisation. Much of Naipaul’s self-knowledge involved his engagement with these three cultures and his experience of the interplay between colonialism and ethnicity. In his first four novels—Miguel Street, The Mystic Masseur, The Suffrage of Elvira and A House for Mr Biswas—Naipaul describes the life and times of the descendants of Indian immigrants in colonial Trinidad and the making of a girmitiya diaspora there. The lecture delineates the rare sociological insights into this diaspora provided by these novels. – Reproduced   aColonial trinidad, Ethinicity, G.S Ghurey, Literary sensitivity, V.S Naipaul. 932928  aSociological Bulletin    aETHNICITY  cAR  00102ddc40709394481aIIPAbIIPAd2022-09-13h71(1), Jan, 2022: p.133-149pAR127005r2022-09-13yAR