Required Reading:

• Sylvia Wynter, "We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Discuss a Little Culture"

• Biography: Wikipedia | Postcolonial Studies @ Emory | British Council
• Naipaul page of the Nobel Foundation (official site; includes a links to text & video of Naipaul's Nobel speeches)
• Fragment of a 1974 seminar with Naipaul (Banyan)
• Reviews and Criticism:
  • Reviews and Features from the New York Times
  • Reviews and Features from the New York Review of Books
  • Joseph O'Neill, "Man Without a Country" (The Atlantic September 2011): a more than usually sympathetic consideration of Naipaul by a fellow writer
  • Joan Dayan, "Gothic Naipaul" (review article of Rob Nixon's London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Travel Writer and Postcolonial Mandarin) (Transition 59--HSU users only)

"Mimicry, Ambivalence and Hybridity" (Postcolonial Studies, Emory U)

Excerpts from V.S. Naipaul's The Middle Passage