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Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction (review)

Nonetheless one wishes that Shankar had paid greater heed to some of the differences among the texts in addition to their commonalities. Area of Darkness in particular is an enormously complex and self-conscious text, one that accentuates the Trinidadian writer's experience of hysteria, terror, and incomprehension. It also offers a provocative reading of Gandhi as a diasporic Indian figure, with whom Naipaul identifies at least in part. It is precisely the kind of troubled and troubling text that has elicited Shankar's critical acumen in other parts of the monograph, and one that he would have done well to examine somewhat more carefully and comprehensively.