The space of V.S. Naipaul’s novels in the light of multicultural theory

DOI: 10.18173/2354-1067.2021-0004

Abstract

It is a self-evident truth that V.S. Naipaul 's novels hold powerful appeal to readers worldwide thanks to his real-life experience of migration and changes in psychology and lifestyles between multicultural spaces. The writer has successfully created a diversified, rich, traditional hybrid space of the Trinidad and Tobago, an African cultural space before the historical upheavals, and English villages and towns after the the golden age of wealthy nobles and landowners. Studying these spatial dimensions through the prisms of Doreen Massey's multicultural theory will offer an insight into the relationship between place and identity, as well as the artistic talent of V.S. Naipaul, a passionate and gifted writer, who devoted his life to “the history of oppressed peoples”, contributing a great voice to “marginal” cultures.