Orientalism Beyond Belief: Critiquing the Problematics of V. S. Naipaul's Islamic Excursion
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Abstract:
This study aims to offer a critical analysis of V. S. Naipauls second Islamic travelogue Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples (1998), which chronicles the authors excursions to the 4 non-Arab Muslim countries of Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia. This critique is presented, firstly, through problematizing the authors theorization on the theme of Muslim conversion which, according to Naipaul, has bred nothing but neurosis and nihilism in Muslim societiesand then through analyzing representations of the post-Revolutionary Iran of the late 90s. We argue that Naipauls representations fall within an Orientalist frame of reference in which Iran and its people are portrayed through various tropes of Othering in a narrative fraught with disinformation, exaggerations, and reductive treatment of complex sociopolitical phenomena. Finally, Naipauls reasoning in formulating conversion coupled with his myopic approach undermine the authenticity of his representations, resulting in what Said (1998) has dubbed an intellectual catastrophe of the first order (p. 42).
Keywords:
Orientalism , Naipaul , Iran , Islam , Conversion
Language:
English
Published:
Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics, Volume:8 Issue: 1, Spring 2017
Pages:
3 to 21
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