Hi everyone,
I was able to attend the conference on the Thursday and Friday, and for me, those two days were really fulfilling and gave me such inspiration and encouragement to push forward with my research. I was particularly moved by Mr. Varisth Persad's presentation entitled, "Spaces Created by A Way in the World". He made mention of the fact that the past, present and future all shared the same space in Naipaul's work. This is testimony to a very post-modernist approach by the author, in which there is a sort of liminality and the absence of a clear separation between distance, space and time. What was also interesting about his presentation was the multiplicity in identities of the characters in Naipaul's novel, which also translated into the multiple identities of the author himself. With this being said, Naipaul was then able to create a new space, whether fictional or non-fictional, for himself through literature.
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