期刊名称：Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies
印刷版ISSN：0258-2279
出版年度：2014
卷号：35
期号：1
页码：1-9
DOI：10.4102/lit.v35i1.1093
语种：English
出版社：African Online Scientific Information Systems (Pty) Ltd t/a AOSIS
摘要：This article focuses on the representation of faith as conveyed by Naipaul in the course of four travelogues. Drawing on historical scholarship pertaining to Islamic societies in transition, and comparing this to a selection of the literary critical reception that Naipaul’s writing about Islam has evoked, I argue for a revision of literary readings of Naipaul’s travelogues. My premise is that the author’s subject positioning influences both a self-critical as well as more compassionate perspective on the relationship between faith and political transition in developing societies.
