Guerrillas (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: V. S. Naipaul
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Satiric realism
- Time of Work: Sometime in the 1970’s
- Setting: An unnamed Caribbean island
- Principal Characters: Peter Roche, Jane, Jimmy Ahmed, Meredith Herbert, Harry de Tunja, Adela, Bryant
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism, Satire
- Subjects: 1970’s, Caribbean, Power, personal or social, Politics, Blacks, Colonies or colonization, Race, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, Revolutions, Violence, Islands, Guerrillas or guerrilla warfare, Refugees
- Locales: Caribbean, Islands
The Novel
Based loosely on V. S. Naipaul’s nonfictional essay “Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad,” the action of Guerrillas recasts the story of postcolonialism in terms of the relationships between four people on a disturbed West Indian island. The novel opens with a sentence whose tone, eerily out of place, recalls that of other nineteenth century English stories whose ideology creates an ironic subtext: “After lunch Jane and Roche left their house on the Ridge to drive to Thrushcross Grange.” Peter Roche is a man who has gained respect,...
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