V. S Naipaul’s An Area of
Darkness from a postcolonial
perspective
Student : Ayoub Aajoul ; Supervisor : Prof Hassan Aaba
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The research paper is an attempt to study V.S Naipaul’s An Area
of Darkness through irony for which the author is well known. It
aims to explore and describe India and its social, political and
religious situations after independence. Naipaul, as a colonial,
sees India and colonies through a satirical view, he thinks that
Indian people suffer from many social dilemmas which lead them
to try to imitate the western civilizations.
Humiliation, poverty, colonialism in third world states are
main themes in this work. An Area of Darkness – a travelogue
book- comes as a perception of India during its postcolonial era.
The research paper touches on description of India as darkness,
Naipaul’s identity and his negative view on Islam and Gandhi as a symbole of civilization
