original, 14

outside, 17, 46, 145, 146

outsider, 110, 111

perfect, 115

post-colonial, 51, 74, 117, 118, 139, 140, 145, 146, 150

Puritan, 139

real, 7, 49, 88, 101, 136, 137, 140, 142, , 101, 136, 137, 140, 142

realistic, 109

(and) reality, 27, 58

(and) relationship, 82

(of)/(and) religion(s), 9

(and) representation (of), 41, 46

(and) role, 27

(and) self, 82

single[see unitary] [see unified], 27

stable, 26, 27

(and) subject, 14, 15, 17, 56, 61, 118, 139

(and) subjectivity, 98

truth, 7, 8

understanding (of), 24

unified, 3, 27

unitary[see single], 27

version, 24, 60, 82

violence/violent, 4, 27, 30

West, 147

Western, 50, 133

whole[see unitary] [see unified] [see stable], 39

The Wretched of the Earth, , 35, 91

writer, xiii, 1–8, 12, 14–16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26–28, 30–36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72–128, 130–132,

writer (continued), 134, 136–140, 142–146, 148–152

homeland[see all chapter 4, “V. S. Naipaul and the Search for the Writer’s Homeland”], 93, 95

writing, 2–4, 6, 23, 27, 29–32, 34–36, 38, 41, 46, 59, 63, 66, 69, 73, 90, 93–95, 104–115, 118, 120, 122, 125, 134, 148

ability, 112

act (of), 104, 115

career, 2, 3

death, 114

deferral (of), 115

diasporic, 33

diary, 110

discourse, 148

ethical/and ethics, 118

exile, 6, 8, 66, 93, 105

(of) history, 59, 94, 105

(and) identity, 94

importance (of), 23

journey, 118

(and) landscape, 113

(of) life, 106

memory and/or, 106

narrator/narrator’s/narrative, 115, 134, 148

nature (of), 94

past, 111

post-colonial, 125

power, 148

process, 94, 106, 107, 113, 114

project, 94

reality (of), 38

rewriting, 106

role, 107

satirical, 69

(the) self, 41, 108