Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170104919

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP170104919

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Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

A critical study of the works of V.S. Naipaul. This project aims to study V.S. Naipaul, whose books defy the protocols of post-colonial theory. Literature students have met Naipaul’s books with outright denigration and unnerving silence, leading to an absence of serious engagement with the genesis of his works and their relationship to post-colonial criticism. This project will emphasise post-colonial texts rather than post-colonial theory and criticism. It will use the Naipaul Tulsa archive to uncover the difficulty in the material itself. A close reading of textual variants, their transmission and reception is expected to show a post-colonial writer's struggle with form, aesthetics and ideology.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2017

End Date: 12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $116,572.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Literary Studies | Other Literatures in English | British and Irish Literature | Literary Theory

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Languages and Literature |

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