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100			_aJayaram, N. _934037
245			_aEthnicity, self-knowledge and literary sensitivity: A sociological reading of V.S. Naipaul’s first four novels
260			_aSociological Bulletin
300			_a71(1), Jan, 2022: p.133-149
520			_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
650			_aColonial trinidad, Ethinicity, G.S Ghurey, Literary sensitivity, V.S Naipaul. _932928
773			_aSociological Bulletin
906			_aETHNICITY
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