HOW A COLONY WAS CREATED BY THE FAILURE TO CREATE A COLONY: V.S. NAIPAUL’S THE LOSS OF EL DORADO
HOW A COLONY WAS CREATED BY THE FAILURE TO CREATE A COLONY: V.S. NAIPAUL’S THE LOSS OF EL DORADO

Summary/Abstract: Trying to elucidate the enigma of how a colony was created in the New World, V.S. Naipaul employs El Dorado as the dream behind the colonial narrative which fueled adventure and conquest. He focuses on two historical moments il, which he selected as representative for the history of his native Trinidad. Engaging critically with the colonial material that he researched in the process of writing the book, Naipaul renders visible the paradox of how a colony was created in the New World by the failure to create a colony: that is, by an accumulation of historical mistakes, confusion, disorder, and terror.

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