Further Reading
- Jacobs, J. U., "The Colonial Mind in a State of Fear: The Psychosis of Terror in the Contemporary South African Novel," North Dakota Quarterly 57, no. 3 (Summer 1989): 24-43. (Article with a section on Trinidadian and Tobago literature, and a discussion of A Hot Country as compared to novels by Elsa Joubert, Andre Philippus Brink, and Nadine Gordimer.)
- Jacobs, J. U., "Writing in the Margin: Shiva Naipaul's 'A Hot Country,'" Theoria 70 (October 1987). (Lengthy review of A Hot Country.)
- King, Bruce, The New Internationalism: Shiva Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Buchi Emecheta, Timothy Mo and Kazuo Ishiguro (1991): 192-211. (General overview of Naipaul's work in the context of other cosmopolitan authors.)
- Naipaul, V. S., Letters Between a Father and a Son, New York: Little, Brown, 1999, 333 p. (Useful insight into Naipaul's family dynamics in the form of letters between his brother and his father.)
- Panwar, Purabi, India in the Works of Kipling, Forster and Naipaul: Postcultural Revaluations, Delhi, India: Pencraft, 2000, 186 p. (Study of the portrayal of India in the works of Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, and Naipaul.)
- Patteson, Richard F., "Shiva Naipaul: Choreographer of Chaos," in Caribbean Passages, pp. 83-113. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1998. (Chapter of a book on West Indian fiction focusing on Naipaul's essays, stories, and novels.)
- Phillips, Caryl, ed., Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging, New York: Vintage International, 1999, 315 p. (Anthology of writings by multicultural writers connected with England from the 1770s to the present, including “Living in Earl's Court” by Naipaul.)
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