The writer and the world : essays / V.S. Naipaul ; introduced and edited by Pankaj Mishra

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Contents: India -- In the middle of the journey -- Jamshed into jimmy -- Second visit -- Election in Ajmer -- Africa and the diaspora -- Papa and the power set Shipwrecked six thousand Ultimate colony -- Overcrowded Barracoon -- Power? -- Michael X and the Black power killings in Trinidad: peace and power -- New king for the Congo: Mobutu and the Nihilism of Africa -- Crocodiles of Yamoussoukro -- Columbus and Crusoe -- American occasions -- Jacques Soustelle and the decline of the West -- New York with Norman Mailer -- Steinbeck in Monterey -- Argentina and the ghost of Eva Person, 1972-1991 -- Air-conditioned bubble: the republican in Dallas -- Heavy manners in Gerenada -- Handful of dust: Cheddi Jagan and the revolution in Guyana -- Postscript: our universal civilization
ISBN: 0375407391
Note: Includes index.

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