Title + explanation : Miguel street The story is about people that live in Miguel street Author + background : V.S. Naipaul Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V. S." Naipaul‚ TC (born 17 August 1932) is a Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Trinidadian heritage of Bhumihar Brahmin[1][2] known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire’s colonialism. He has also written works of non-fiction‚ such as travel writing and essays. Naipaul was born in Chaguanas
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The Novel Miguel Street has been variously classified as a group of short stories‚ as a series of sketches‚ and as a novel. The latter classification is supported by the fact that it is unified by a single narrator and by several patterns and themes. Furthermore‚ although each chapter is dominated by a single character‚ those major characters reappear as minor characters in other chapters. At the end of the book‚ all the characters who still live on Miguel Street gather to present to the narrator
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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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Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul The History of Trinidad Trinidad was inhabited by Carib and Arawak people long before Christopher Columbus arrived‚ but the recorded history of Trinidad and Tobago begins with the settlements of the islands by Spanish. Both islands were encountered by Christopher Columbus on his third voyage in 1498. Tobago changed hands between the British‚ French‚ Dutch and Courlanders‚ but eventually ended up in British hands. Trinidad remained in Spanish hands until 1797‚ but
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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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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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examination of oneself and one’s community. Writers have also frequently concentrated on former oral and social customs‚ so as to examine carefully the fragment they assimilate in the advancement of modern-day society and consciousness. In both Miguel Street and Beka Lamb the impact of colonisation that influenced the major themes such as the issue of identity‚ exile and migration‚ and women‚ will be epitomised by comparing and contrasting. Beka Lamb was issued in 1982‚ the year subsequent to independence
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