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    S. NAIPAUL’S MIGUEL STREET What is the role of the creative artist in countries such as ours? Novelist V.S Naipaul raises this question in the story of B. Wordsworth‚ one of the stories in Miguel Street‚ a 1959 book of Trini characters. "Trinidadians are more recognizably ’characters’ than people in England"‚ said Naipaul in an August ‚1958 piece in the Times Literary Supplement. The "characters" in Miguel Street’s portrait gallery include "Man Man" and "Bolo"‚ both of whom are

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    accompany his governmental employer although he was thrilled and enthusiastic when he was told about this invitation. He was more excited especially in his conversation with the tailor’s bearer when he said ‘‘it pleased me that he was jealous ’’ (Naipaul‚ 2008); he thought his

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    her into another one‚ could lead to a state of frustration and pain resulted from the clash of values that attacks him or her entity and social status. Such impacts of the cultural encounter are revealed in the short story “One out of Many” by V.S. Naipaul. Naipaul’s short story shows a clear notion of the cultural encounter. It is a story about an Indian who left his country and went to the United States of America; specifically to Washington. From this point‚ the

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    17 April 2013 V.S. Naipaul The Effect of Colonialism in V.S Naipaul’s Miguel Street “The man is so colonized that he abandons his native Trinidadian identity” (Beck‚ 2002). Although pertaining to the character B. Wordsworth‚ in V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street‚ this quote can be used to describe the very meaning of the book itself. It can be used to provide a clear picture of what was happening in British occupied Trinidad. Other characters such as George‚ a raging drunk who beat his wife and children

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    Crossing the B l a c k Waters: N i r a d C . C h a u d h u r i ’ s A Passage to E n g l a n d and V . S. Naipaul’s A n A r e a of Darkness A L A S TAIR I NIVEN N 1955 N i r a d C h a u d h u r i made his first v i s i t outside India and i n 1962 V . S. N a i p a u l went to I n d i a for the first t i m e . B o t h men were established w r i t e r s ‚ practiced i n h u m a n observation and yet possessing an innately p a t r i c i a n sense of t h e i r o w n d i s t i n c t i o n . I n v i e w i

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    Sir V.S. Naipaul is a Trinidadian writer of Indian descent. Very famous for his novels. His novels‚ reached to developing countries .He received the Nobel Prize in 2001 for Half a Life‚ a story about an Indian immigrant to England and Africa. One of his stories too is One Out Of Many. This short story talks about the live of Santosh. Who moved to Washington to follow his employer who is an Indian cook employed by a Washington government‚ when Santosh moved he saw many stranger things. In addition

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    Description/Synopsis: Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad “V.S.” Naipaul was born in Trinidad on 17th August 1932‚ the descendant of indentured labourers shipped from India‚ this dispossessed child of the Raj has come on a long and marvellous journey. His upbringing familiarised him with every sort of deprivation‚ material and cultural. A scholarship to Oxford brought him to this country. Nothing sustained him afterwards except the determination‚ often close to despair‚ to become a writer. Against all likelihood

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    two poems‚ I will try to define Wordsworth and Emerson¡¯s respective conception of nature. The reason why they formed such conceptions of nature is‚ to the former‚ lies in his passiveness; and to the latter‚ in German philosophy and bold individualism. Key Words: conception of nature£»NATURE£»philosophical conception of nature£»common conception of nature£»passiveness£»individualism Outline I. Introduction II. Wordsworth¡¯s conception of nature III. Emerson¡¯s double conceptions of nature IV

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    Ar. B. V. Doshi B. V. Doshi was born in Pune‚ India. Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi (26 August 1927) is an Indian architect‚ considered an important figure of South Asian architecture and noted for his contributions to the evolution of architectural discourse in India. He studied at the J. J. School of Architecture‚ Mumbai. After having worked for four years between 1951-54 with Le Corbusier in Paris‚ B. V. Doshi returned to Ahmedabad to supervise Le Corbusier’s projects. His studio‚ Vastu-Shilpa

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    philosophy of Locke and the causes and consequences of revolutionary spirit of the French revolution. Wordsworth was brought up reading the Augustan´s metric poetry and the neoclassicist’s descriptive complex language which fully expressed the ideas of reasoning over sentiments. Influenced and inspired by the changing ideological atmosphere of the late XVIII and the first third of the XIX century‚ Wordsworth found his own poetic voice distancing from artificiality of the authors from the past‚ and writing

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