Teaching V.S. Naipaul in the Caribbean
- Written by J. Vijay Maharaj, Lecturer, The University of the West Indies: St. Augustine Campus
Like everyone else in the world, people on the twin-island Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago learned on Aug. 11 that Trinidad-born Sir Vidia Naipaul – better known as V.S. Naipaul – had died.
While newspapers in the U.S. and Britain ran tributes to this titan of English-language literature, reactions in the Caribbean have been...