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Acknowledgments I wish to thank my Cornell graduate advisors—Natalie Melas, Satya Mohanty, Biodun Jeyifo, and Timothy Murray—for their continuous support and invaluable guidance in shaping my work. During my year as Mellon Fellow at Cornell’s Society for the Humanities in 2006–7, I developed the central ideas of this book. I wish to thank all my coparticipants in the seminar Historicizing the Global Postmodern for their constructive and generous feedback. I am also grateful to the English Department at the University of Toronto for collegial and financial support, particularly for granting me the semester of leave that allowed me to write and for funding my trip to the V. S. Naipaul archive. I thank my colleagues Ato Quayson, Neil ten Kortenaar, and Dan White for their helpful comments on an early draft of the manuscript. I also wish to acknowledge the expert help I received at the V. S. Naipaul archive at the University of Tulsa’s McFarlin Library from Marc Carlson, librarian of Special Collections and University Archives, and Jenny Eagleton, who helped me navigate the collection. I am grateful to the University of Virginia Press, particularly its humanities editor, Cathie Brettschneider, as well as the two anonymous reviewers who found merit in this project, offered many insightful suggestions , and supported its publication. Many thanks to Tim Roberts for managing the editorial process, to Judith Hoover for her expert copyediting , and to Martin L. White for the index. For their intellectual rigor and the inspiring generosity of their research and teaching, I remain indebted to professors Wlad Godzich, Neil Hertz, and Richard Waswo, who taught me during my BA years at the University of Geneva and helped me make it to graduate school. Finally, special thanks to my brother, Rajko, and mother, Mirjana, whose inquisitiveness, generosity, and genuine talent for dialogue helped me shape many ideas in this book. ...

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