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International audience ; Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul has been either praised to the skies or held up to public obloquy ; he is considered as the greatest writer in the English language, or as a writer whose ideological and political attitudes are sometimes considered dubious—few writers have been as controversial as V. S. Naipaul. The tensions that surround the man and his oeuvre are only echoed by the multiple strands that his writing has been taking over the past fi fty years—multifarious and yet paradoxically more and more centred. V. S. Naipaul not only writes fi ction and non-fi ction, he covers a wide spectrum of the literary practice, writing short stories and novels, essays and travel writing. A few academics among the specialists of V. S. Naipaul's work present us with papers on different aspects and periods of the writer's oeuvre, from 1957 to 2002, as well as the richness and complexity of the writing. They make it easier to understand how generic boundaries are not what matters. The sense of form and creation is simply at work in every text. It is the same furrow that is being ploughed with different tools. The papers were originally presented at the conference "V. S. Naipaul : a World in Tension" (Paul Valéry University, Novembre 2002). ; Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul a été tantôt voué aux gémonies tantôt encensé ; tantôt considéré comme le plus grand écrivain de langue anglaise, tantôt comme un écrivain dont les prises de position politiques et idéologiques sont douteuses — peu d'écrivains ont été aussi controversés. A ces multiples tensions qui entourent l'homme et son oeuvre, le lecteur trouve un écho dans son écriture, constituée au fi l des cinquante dernières années. Le registre de sa pratique littéraire est extrêmement large : nouvelles, romans, essais et récits de voyage. Parmi les spécialistes de l'oeuvre de V. S. Naipaul, quelques universitaires, tout d'abord réunis au cours du colloque « V. S. Naipaul : un monde sous tension » (Université Paul-Valéry, novembre 2002), présentent ...

International audience ; Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul has been either praised to the skies or held up to public obloquy ; he is considered as the greatest writer in the English language, or as a writer whose ideological and political attitudes are sometimes considered dubious—few writers have been as controversial as V. S. Naipaul. The tensions that surround the man and his oeuvre are only echoed by the multiple strands that his writing has been taking over the past fi fty years—multifarious and yet paradoxically more and more centred. V. S. Naipaul not only writes fi ction and non-fi ction, he covers a wide spectrum of the literary practice, writing short stories and novels, essays and travel writing. A few academics among the specialists of V. S. Naipaul's work present us with papers on different aspects and periods of the writer's oeuvre, from 1957 to 2002, as well as the richness and complexity of the writing. They make it easier to understand how generic boundaries are not what matters. The sense of form and creation is simply at work in every text. It is the same furrow that is being ploughed with different tools. The papers were originally presented at the conference "V. S. Naipaul : a World in Tension" (Paul Valéry University, Novembre 2002). ; Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul a été tantôt voué aux gémonies tantôt encensé ; tantôt considéré comme le plus grand écrivain de langue anglaise, tantôt comme un écrivain dont les prises de position politiques et idéologiques sont douteuses — peu d'écrivains ont été aussi controversés. A ces multiples tensions qui entourent l'homme et son oeuvre, le lecteur trouve un écho dans son écriture, constituée au fi l des cinquante dernières années. Le registre de sa pratique littéraire est extrêmement large : nouvelles, romans, essais et récits de voyage. Parmi les spécialistes de l'oeuvre de V. S. Naipaul, quelques universitaires, tout d'abord réunis au cours du colloque « V. S. Naipaul : un monde sous tension » (Université Paul-Valéry, novembre 2002), présentent ici des articles portant sur les différents aspects et périodes de l'oeuvre, en refl étant ainsi la richesse et la complexité. À la lecture de ces articles, il devient plus facile de comprendre à quel point les distinctions de genre ou de forme n'ont que peu d'importance ici, comme s'il s'agissait du même sillon, labouré par différents outils.

This volume discusses the legacies of indenture in the Caribbean, Reunion, Mauritius, and Fiji, and how they still imbue our present. More importantly, it draws attention to India and raises new questions: doesn t one need, at some stage, to wonder why this forgotten chapter of Indian history needs to be retrieved

International audience ; In this interview with Judith Misrahi-Barak and Nicole Thiara, Jayan K. Cherian discusses his work as an independent filmmaker in India and the USA, his artistic and political commitment, and the challenges he has faced with the Central Board of Film Certification in India after the release of his first feature film Papilio Buddha (2013), which focuses on Dalit land struggles in Kerala, and again with his second feature film KaBodyscapes (2016). The interview explores how holding a dual status as an American citizen and an Overseas Citizen of India makes his situation more complex because it offers him both the freedom and constraints of being a permanent outsider. The discussion of Papilio Buddha and its representation of the Dalit land struggle is the focus of the interview. He also speaks about his intended audience(s) and the way he works on location with his crews. Since Cherian is a poet and a writer as well as a filmmaker, he explains his choices for specific media, in the particular contexts in which he positions himself.

International audience ; In this interview with Judith Misrahi-Barak and Nicole Thiara, Jayan K. Cherian discusses his work as an independent filmmaker in India and the USA, his artistic and political commitment, and the challenges he has faced with the Central Board of Film Certification in India after the release of his first feature film Papilio Buddha (2013), which focuses on Dalit land struggles in Kerala, and again with his second feature film KaBodyscapes (2016). The interview explores how holding a dual status as an American citizen and an Overseas Citizen of India makes his situation more complex because it offers him both the freedom and constraints of being a permanent outsider. The discussion of Papilio Buddha and its representation of the Dalit land struggle is the focus of the interview. He also speaks about his intended audience(s) and the way he works on location with his crews. Since Cherian is a poet and a writer as well as a filmmaker, he explains his choices for specific media, in the particular contexts in which he positions himself.

As liminal beings, ghosts seem particularly appropriate to define, question or challenge hybrid cultures where several, seemingly irreconcilable, identities coexist. The present volume wonders how they manifest themselves in the English-speaking world, and whether there is a specifically postcolonial kind of haunting. The 22 articles deal with textual, translational or historical ghosts, and take us to Canada, Australia, Africa, India or the Caribbean. Poems by Gerry Turcotte literally haunt the volume, which thus juxtaposes theory and practice in a dynamic and fruitful way. ; De par leur liminalité, les fantômes semblent particulièrement adaptés pour définir, interroger ou remettre en question des cultures hybrides où coexistent plusieurs identités apparemment inconciliables. Ce volume explore leurs diverses manifestations dans le monde anglophone, se demandant s'il existe une hantise proprement postcoloniale. Les vingt-deux articles nous présentent des fantômes historiques ou textuels, et nous emmènent du Canada à l'Australie, de l'Afrique à l'Inde ou à la Caraïbe. Des poèmes de Gerry Turcotte hantent littéralement le volume, qui juxtapose ainsi théorie et pratique de façon dynamique et féconde.

As liminal beings, ghosts seem particularly appropriate to define, question or challenge hybrid cultures where several, seemingly irreconcilable, identities coexist. The present volume wonders how they manifest themselves in the English-speaking world, and whether there is a specifically postcolonial kind of haunting. The 22 articles deal with textual, translational or historical ghosts, and take us to Canada, Australia, Africa, India or the Caribbean. Poems by Gerry Turcotte literally haunt the volume, which thus juxtaposes theory and practice in a dynamic and fruitful way. ; De par leur liminalité, les fantômes semblent particulièrement adaptés pour définir, interroger ou remettre en question des cultures hybrides où coexistent plusieurs identités apparemment inconciliables. Ce volume explore leurs diverses manifestations dans le monde anglophone, se demandant s'il existe une hantise proprement postcoloniale. Les vingt-deux articles nous présentent des fantômes historiques ou textuels, et nous emmènent du Canada à l'Australie, de l'Afrique à l'Inde ou à la Caraïbe. Des poèmes de Gerry Turcotte hantent littéralement le volume, qui juxtapose ainsi théorie et pratique de façon dynamique et féconde.

International audience ; This book, companion to the much-acclaimed Dalit Literatures in India, examines questions of aesthetics and literary representation in a wide range of Dalit literary texts. It looks at how Dalit literature, born from the struggle against social and political injustice, invokes the rich and complex legacy of oral, folk and performative traditions of marginalised voices. The essays and interviews systematically explore a range of literary forms, from autobiographies, memoirs and other testimonial narratives, to poems, novels or short stories, foregrounding the diversity of Dalit creation. Showcasing the interplay between the aesthetic and political for a genre of writing that has 'change' as its goal, the volume aims to make Dalit writing more accessible to a wider public, for the Dalit voices to be heard and understood. The volume also shows how the genre has revolutionised the concept of what literature is supposed to mean and define.Effervescent first-person accounts, socially militant activism and sharp critiques of a little-explored literary terrain make this essential reading for scholars and researchers of social exclusion and discrimination studies, literature (especially comparative literature), translation studies, politics, human rights and culture studies.