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- Title
Anarchy and Chaos in V.S. Naipaul's Guerrillas.
- Authors
Soni, Sonia
- Abstract
Naipaul presents the anarchy and chaos of African reality in its true colours in Guerrillas and A Bend in the River. These novels present the barrenness and fluidity that prevailed after the colonial rule is over. There has been interesting parallels between Guerrillas and Water With Berries by George Lamming. Both novels feature exile of protagonists to London from the Caribbean who gets involved in revolutionary acts and both contain liberal dozes of sex and violence. Naipaul's attitude to the rootless expatriates is that they exist in insecurity and envy to one another. Their relations are marked by mistrust and violence. He lays bare the shallowness, the chaos and their lack of loyalty to England despite their eager will to return to England.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; GUERRILLAS (Book); BEND in the River, A (Book : Naipaul); NAIPAUL, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018; LAMMING, George, 1927-2022; WATER With Berries (Book); NONCITIZENS in literature; VIOLENCE in literature
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2013, Vol 4, Issue 2, p182
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Article