Political Reality in V.S.Naipaul's the Mimic Men: A Critical Study

Abstract

The Mimic Men Naipaul concerns himself with the political reality of Trinidad just before and after independence. This novel examines different aspects of the reaction to political independence of the individual and the group. Each novel dramatizes a particular feature of Trinidad's inability to go back to colonial security or to generate a national identity thus emphasizing its   po1itica1 insignificance. In The Mimic Men the autobiographical account gives the protagonist both a historical as well as an existential context and this redeems the previous static reality as a study of the relationship between political power and human nothingness, oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized