Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Naipaul's Personality -- Naipaul's Theatrics -- Naipaul as a Journalist -- The Context of Decolonisation -- The Trinidadian Context -- Scope of this Book -- 1. Early Fiction of the 1950s: The Trinidad Years -- Gurudeva and Other Indian Tales (1943) -- The Mystic Masseur (1957) -- The Suffrage of Elvira (1958) -- Miguel Street (1959) -- A House for Mr Biswas (1961) -- 'A Dancing Dwarf on the Tarmac' -- Critical Response in Trinidad -- 2. The Interloper in Travel Writing -- The Middle Passage (1962) An Area of Darkness (1964) -- Critical Reception in Trinidad -- 3. Mimicry and Experiments of the 1960s -- Mr Stone and the Knights Companion (1963) -- A Flag on the Island (1967) -- The Mimic Men (1967) -- The Loss of El Dorado (1969) -- Mimicry and Representation -- 4. Displacement Across Borders in the 1970s -- The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles (1972) -- (i) The Booker Prize and the Black Power Movement -- In a Free State (1971) -- Black Power Movement in Trinidad -- 'Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad' (1980) -- Guerrillas (1975) (Ii) The Impact of the Black Power Movement -- The Return of Eva Perón (1980) -- The first conference on East Indians in the Caribbean (1975) -- India: A Wounded Civilization (1977) -- A Bend in the River (1979) -- Challenges and Misrepresentation -- 5. The Imperial Vision of the 1980s -- Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981) -- Finding the Centre (1984) -- The Enigma of Arrival (1987) -- A Turn in the South (1989) -- Naipaul's Turn towards Conservatism -- 6. Redemptive Journeys in the 1990s -- India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990) -- 'Our Universal Civilization' (1990) 'Argentina and the Ghost of Eva Perón, 1972-1991' (1991) -- 'A Handful of Dust: Cheddi Jagan and the Revolution in Guyana' (1991) -- A Way in the World (1994) -- Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (1998) -- Letters Between a Father and Son (1999) -- An Assessment -- 7. Composing again in the 2000s -- Reading and Writing: A Personal Account (2000) -- 'Two Worlds' (2001) -- Half A Life (2001) -- Magic Seeds (2004) -- A Writer's People (2007) -- The 2007 Conference at UWI -- The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief (2010) -- Conclusions Appendix A: A Note on Trinidad -- Appendix B: A Note on V. S. Naipaul's Terminology and Use of Spellings -- Works Cited -- Index | 
