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This write-up intends to negotiate and analyze a writer who is a postcolonial by birth and metropolitan by profession and location. In the opening of A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling, we get a glimpse of V. S. Naipaul, a metropolitan postcolonial man and his acknowledgement of his struggle to get into the world where circumstances compelled him since his childhood to move around, to feel accommodated and settled in the unsettled postcolonial world, be it Trinidad or Metropolitan England. His struggle is also a struggle of a postcolonial writer to get a start in the writing profession, unlike most other writers including his contemporaries who lacked proper ways of looking and feeling. He wanted to be a writer with a different world-view. The book in question is a commentary on the different ways of looking and feeling of his contemporaries, the different writers and political figures including Mahatma Gandhi and their many ways of looking and feeling, seeing and not seeing that had altered the configuration of the world.
Prof. Kafeel Ahmed Choudhury. “A Writer’s People and A Metropolitan Postcolonial Man’s Ways of Looking and Feeling: A Critical Study.” The Criterion: An International Journal in English, vol. 17, no. 3, June 2026, pp. 272-289. DOI, https://doi.org/10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.18.
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