| Revista: | La torre (Río Piedras) |
| Base de datos: | CLASE |
| Número de sistema: | 000399552 |
| ISSN: | 0040-9588 |
| Autores: | Smith, Dorsía1 |
| Instituciones: | 1Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, San Juan. Puerto Rico |
| Año: | 2006 |
| Periodo: | Jul-Dic |
| Volumen: | 11 |
| Número: | 41-42 |
| Paginación: | 539-547 |
| País: | Puerto Rico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Enfoque: | Descriptivo |
| Resumen en español | The Middle Passage describes V.S. Naipaul´s journey to Trinidad, British Guiana, Surinam, Martinique, and Jamaica. As the travelogue unfolds, Naipaul explains why he had to escape from the Caribbean to England by depicting a nightmare image of West Indian society. As he quotes in the epigraph the words of James Anthony Froude, the Caribbean society is inadequate and lacks viability: There are no people here [...] with a character or purpose of their own (Naipaul xi). Futhermore, the Caribbean is a derelict land, since [h]istory is built around achievement and creation; and nothing was created in the West Indies (20). As such, Naipaul´s record of his travel experience and obeservations of the Caribbean serve to project his one-sided knowledge of West Indian society |
| Disciplinas: | Literatura y lingüística, Sociología |
| Palabras clave: | Narrativa, Problemas sociales, "The middle passage", Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad, Caribe, Trinidad y Tobago, Identidad |
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