A educação (pós-)imperial de V. S. Naipaul

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais

卷:65

关键词: V. S. Naipaul;    British empire;    colonial education;    colonial discourse;    postcolonialism;   

DOI  :  10.4000/rccs.1190

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The article discusses several meanings of the word “education” that have a particular relevance to V. S. Naipaul’s career as a writer. It refers briefly to the typical colonial education he received in Trinidad, and the ways in which it turned him into both a “good” and a “bad colonial”. It then goes on to discuss how Naipaul came to feel the need to educate himself for a postcolonial world, and how he had to learn to cope with the deterritorialized, hybrid condition of the postcolonial subject. Finally, it is suggested that the “areas of darkness” that Naipaul elected as the main theme of his writing is the space where he deliberately built his discourse and the “zone of interdiction” which was meant to exist between colonizer and colonized is the “no-man’s land” that he inhabits.

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