Add to Wishlist. Item Price. $ The middle passage: Impressions of five societies - British, French and Dutch - in the West Indies and South America. by Naipaul, V. S. Seller. Better World Books Ltd. In 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. Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more.
Naipaul's purpose in writing The Middle Passage was to examine the nature of the colonial societies existing in the West Indies and on the northern coast of South America. The book is also a. Title: The Middle Passage Author: V.S. Naipaul Genre: Travel, Non Fiction, Memoir First published: Finished reading: July 31st Pages: "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. V.S. Naipaul undertook this Caribbean journey at the invitation, in , of Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, the author's birthplace. At that time, the plantation colonies of the region were formed, culturally, in the image of the metropolis. Racial and political assertion had yet to catch up with them in.
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