One out of Many (story)
"One out of Many" is a short story within an unconventionally formatted novel entitled In a Free State, written by V. S. Naipaul and originally published by André Deutsch in 1971. The protagonist, Santosh, is forced to give up his familiar life inside the stratified castes of India to move with his employer, now an Indian ambassador, to Washington, D.C., during the civil rights protests and commensurate "hippie era". Themes developed in the story reflect Santosh's abrupt displacement from a comfortable, life-long acclimation in India, to an alien environment in the United States, where his beliefs, perceptions, and sense of belonging are upended.[1][2][3][4][5]
About the author
[edit]V. S. Naipaul was a Trinidadian and Tobagonian British. He wrote works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comedic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired.
He published more than thirty books over fifty years. Naipaul won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a Free State. In 1989, he was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honour. He received a knighthood in Britain in 1990, and in 2001, the Nobel Prize in Literature.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Xu, Weiwei. "At Home in the Body: Cosmopolitanism in Naipaul's 'One out of Many'." Papers on Language & Literature, vol. 56, no. 3, 2020, pp. 227+. Gale Academic OneFile. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
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Ayyildiz, Nilay Erdem (June 2015). "On the Way of Hybridity: Naipaul's "One out of many"" (PDF). International Journal of Language and Literature. 4 (1): 107–111. doi:10.15640/ijll.v4n1a11 (inactive 1 November 2024). S2CID 37498934. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2019. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)- Naipaul, V.S.(1984). “One out of Many.” In a Free State (1971). New York: Harmondsworth
- ^ Humann, Heather Duerre (Spring 2010). "The Meaning of Freedom: Human Rights in V. S. Naipaul's "One Out of Many"". South Atlantic Review. 75 (2): 77–83. JSTOR 41635611.
- ^ Morgan, Paula (December 2007). "Migration and Identity in Naipaul's "One Out of Many". Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal. 5 (2). University of Miami: Article 8. doi:10.33596/anth.104. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ^ Walder, Dennis (1992). "V.S. Naipaul's India". Indian Literature. 3 (149): 83–100. JSTOR 23338004. This story is discussed on pages 95-98.
Further reading
[edit]- "One Out of Many". Textual analysis. Fu Jen University. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- Julia Knoth. The Change of an Immigrant's Identity in "One Out of Many", 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- Hawkins, Hunt. "Introduction:Human Rights and the Humanities." South Atlantic Review 75, no. 2 (2010): 1–3. JSTOR 41635604 Retrieved 16 February 2020.