From his own ambivalent migrant perspective, in The Enigma of Arrival (1987) V.S. Naipaul debunks the myths surrounding the notion of Englishness and its literary tradition. In Naipaul’s novel the English countryside is remapped from the 'double consciousness' of the Indian-Trinidadian writer living in Britain.
V.S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival: myth and identity in time and space / N. Brazzelli. ((Intervento presentato al convegno Migration. British Comparative Literature Association Triennial Conference tenutosi a University of Essex nel 2013.
V.S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival: myth and identity in time and space
N. BrazzelliPrimo
2013
Abstract
From his own ambivalent migrant perspective, in The Enigma of Arrival (1987) V.S. Naipaul debunks the myths surrounding the notion of Englishness and its literary tradition. In Naipaul’s novel the English countryside is remapped from the 'double consciousness' of the Indian-Trinidadian writer living in Britain.
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