George Lamming And V. S. Naipaul In The Light Of Politics Of Postcolonialism

Considering their literary lives, oeuvres, political and ideological affiliations as regards the third world societies and the West; this article deals with a comparison of V. S. Naipaul and George Lamming in the light of their politics of postcolonialism. It tackles the general qualities that chara...

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Published in:Sosyal bilimler dergisi (Nicosia, Cyprus) Cyprus), 2012-04, Vol.5 (1), p.99-121
Main Author: Tas, Mehmet Recep
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Decolonization
Developing Countries
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Identity
Myths
National Identity
Norms
Politics
Satire
Socialism
Subjectivity
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Summary:Considering their literary lives, oeuvres, political and ideological affiliations as regards the third world societies and the West; this article deals with a comparison of V. S. Naipaul and George Lamming in the light of their politics of postcolonialism. It tackles the general qualities that characterize and differentiate each of them, and the question as although they both have almost the same backgrounds, why they are considered as two postcolonial writers representing discrete poles as regards their culture and once-colonized societies. Considering both writers' different standpoints regarding the history, the writing style & language, the prospect of an integral Caribbean nation, and the identity of the individuals of the once colonized nations, it comes to a conclusion that while Lamming (as a socialist realist who champions language, tradition, myth and the disadvantaged) is likely to be considered as a figure representing the 'old new caliban' who has exerted to find remedies which aim to cure the feeling of alienation and rootlessness on the basis of subjectivity and intuition, Naipaul, as a modernist and positivist who champions reason, logic and science,and who has mixtured satire and comic irony to awaken the colonized subjects from their romantic and subjective thoughts to the contemporary world's positivist and objective realities, is likely to be considered as a figure representing the 'new new caliban'. Or to put it in other words, while Lamming represents the one side of the binary opposition in a biased manner, Naipaul acts in a manner which may likely be perceived through Hegel's concept of 'Aufhebung' which also means sublation. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:1986-1303