Books Free Download The Middle Passage Online

The Middle Passage

V.S. Naipaul

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.61 | 525 Users | 43 Reviews

Present Books In Pursuance Of The Middle Passage

Original Title:	The Middle Passage
ISBN:	0375708340 (ISBN13: 9780375708343)
Edition Language:	English

Interpretation To Books The Middle Passage

In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire that they can scarcely believe that the Empire is ending.
In The Middle Passage, Naipaul watches a Trinidadian movie audience greeting Humphrey Bogart’s appearance with cries of “That is man!” He ventures into a Trinidad slum so insalubrious that the locals call it the Gaza Strip. He follows a racially charged election campaign in British Guiana (now Guyana) and marvels at the Gallic pretension of Martinique society, which maintains the fiction that its roads are extensions of France’s routes nationales. And throughout he relates the ghastly episodes of the region’s colonial past and shows how they continue to inform its language, politics, and values. The result is a work of novelistic vividness and dazzling perspicacity that displays Naipaul at the peak of his powers.

Itemize Appertaining To Books The Middle Passage

Title	:	The Middle Passage
Author	:	V.S. Naipaul
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	January 8th 2002 by Vintage (first published 1962)
Categories	:	Travel. Nonfiction. History

Rating Appertaining To Books The Middle Passage

Ratings: 3.61 From 525 Users | 43 Reviews

Appraise Appertaining To Books The Middle Passage

Finished reading: July 31st 2014 I had seen how deep in nearly every West Indian, high and low, were the prejudices of race; how often these prejudices were rooted in self-contempt; and how much important action they prompted. Everyone spoke of nation and nationalism but no one was willing to surrender the priviledges or even the separateness of his group. (view spoiler)[A friend of mine lend me a copy of The Middle Passage, and I'm glad I took the time to finish this travel memoir by V.S.

A lot of the narrative in the pages I read were a bit ... iffy to me. Further research shows Naipaul is an anti-black misogynist among other things, and frankly I now have no desire to read any of his books.

"Middle Passage" was my introduction to Naipaul and it occurred at the same moment I was being introduced to the Caribbean. I was attending a literary festival called Callabash which is where I brought the book. Naipaul had been bashed during a reading by Derek Walcott. It made me interested in this man considered to be a traitor to his homeland and the ethnic complexities of the Caribbean. The "Middle Passage" satisfied both curiosities. Naipaul's voice is exploratory and introspective. He

Fascinating account of the West Indies at that time (language definitely of a time and place...), very honest account of the effects of colonialism on the area

Actually, I did not finish this book. I think it was too stuck in its time for me, and difficult to read because I could not relate to it in any way. Not only does Naipaul show that he is a product of the racial stratification that was a by-product of colonialism, he writes in a voice that is simultaneously pompous and judgmental. But perhaps that is just my 21st Century, modern POC view. Perhaps if I could have forced myself to read on, I might have discovered something likable about the book,

Naipaul certainly has a gift for seamlessly weaving several vignettes together. Despite his writing skill, I was left disappointed in this travelogue. His neo-colonialist political views and occasional racist sentiments turned this story quite bitter. Coupled with Naipaul's rampant pessimism, this book reads more like a highly biased account of one man's feelings toward a homeland he abandoned.I would cautiously recommend the book to those that like to critically read a text and compare it to

A trenchant, expansive look at the West Indies in the early 1960s. Naipaul doesn't mince words about West Indian society - he basically called Trinidad a backwater without any real culture - but he's always interesting, and he visits parts of the region that are rarely discussed (Suriname, Martinique, Guyana). Great travel writing.