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The Loss of El Dorado, by the Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul, is a history book about Venezuela and Trinidad. It was published in 1969. The title refers to the El Dorado legend. ... La pérdida de El Dorado (Spanish translation by Flora Casas, Madrid 2001).
7 de abr. de 2021 · The loss of El Dorado : a colonial history by Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018. Publication date 2001 Topics El Dorado, Colonisation -- Antilles -- Histoire, Trinidad -- History, Trinidad and Tobago -- History, Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad, Eldorado, Trinité-et-Tobago -- Histoire
The Loss of El Dorado is an attempt to draw out an older, deeper history of Trinidad, one preceding its commonly taught history as a British-run plantation economy of slaves and indentured workers. The history focuses on two important historical figures, Sir Walter Raleigh and Francisco Miranda.
14 de sept. de 2011 · The loss of El Dorado : a history by Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-Publication date 1984 Topics El Dorado Publisher New York : Vintage Books Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1970, c1969
16 de mar. de 2011 · In this masterpiece about Trinidad, the Nobel Prize-winning author has “given us a lesson in history [and] shown us how it is best written” (The New York Times).The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V. S. Naipaul—himself a ...
Abstract. Through an analysis of The loss of El Dorado, the author intends to show how V. S. Naipaul (a writer in some ways very controversial) narrated the colonial device in his native island, Trinidad, on the border between literature and historiographical research, relying on a large amount of archival documents.
Naipaul’s Loss of El Dorado is a fascinating but neglected text in this conversation, and is a key text in the development of his historical and social thought. This chapter positions Naipaul’s work within a history of West Indian historical writing, and historiographical debate, looking in detail at the work of C.L.R. James, Elsa Goveia, Eric Williams, Derek Walcott, and David Scott.
