The Transcription of Identities : : A Study of V. S. Naipaul's Postcolonial Writings / / Min Zhou.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2015
• VerfasserIn: Zhou, Min,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural Studies ; 43
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Chapter One. An Exile at Home --; Chapter Two. An Exile between Islands --; Chapter Three. An Enigmatic Identity --; Chapter Four. The Historical Perspective --; Conclusion --; Works Cited
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839428542; 9783110700985; 9783110439687; 9783110438673; 9783110489842; 9783110661552; 9783110401226
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839428542?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Min Zhou.

Based on a study of V. S. Naipaul's postcolonial writings, this book explores the process of postcolonial subjects' special route of identification. This enables the readers to see how in our increasingly diverse and fragmented post-modern world, identity is a vibrant, complex, and highly controversial concept. The old notion of identity as a prescribed and self-sufficient entity is now replaced by identity as a plural, floating and becoming process. Min Zhou shows how postcolonial literature, among other artistic forms, is one of the most representative reflections of this floating identity.