Miguel Street (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: V. S. Naipaul
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Comic realism
- Time of Work: The 1930’s and 1940’s
- Setting: Trinidad
- Principal Characters: The Narrator, Bogart, Hat, Popo, Titus Hoyt, Laura, Bhakhu
- Genres: Long fiction, Postcolonial literature
- Subjects: Values, Caribbean, Race, Social issues, 1940’s, Poetry or poets, 1930’s, Polygamy or bigamy, Domestic violence, Ethnic groups, Ethics, Cruelty
- Locales: Trinidad
The Novel
Miguel Street has been variously classified as a group of short stories, as a series of sketches, and as a novel. The latter classification is supported by the fact that it is unified by a single narrator and by several patterns and themes. Furthermore, although each chapter is dominated by a single character, those major characters reappear as minor characters in other chapters. At the end of the book, all the characters who still live on Miguel Street gather to present to the narrator (who is departing for college) gifts representing their own attitudes...
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