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The Columbia History of the British NovelAnd indeed it is Nostromo as much as Heart of Darkness that lies behind most Africanist novels, and in particular behind the large body of recent fiction that Euro-American writers have set in a postcolonial Africa. For Nostromo is the great novel of economic imperialism: of the international interests whose investments must be protected, whether they are moral, political, or financial; and of what that protection costs. Africanist fiction is not on the whole as strong as the literature the British produced about the Raj. But because those investments did not vanish with independence, it is likely to provide a better model for the novels of a neocolonial age. -651- "The empires of our time were short-lived," Naipaul writes in The Mimic Men (1967), "but they have altered the world for ever; their passing away is their least significant feature." And Naipaul's own novels both chart that alteration and are themselves a product of it. The descendant of Hindus who came to Trinidad as indentured laborers, Naipaul has become over the last thirty-five years one of the most prominent figures in what was at first called "Commonwealth literature" and is now known as postcolonial literature ...» |
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