{"footnote":"\u003Cp\u003E  Naipaul may have chosen this as his \u0026lsquo;last\u0026rsquo; travel report because it has been suggested that he was unsympathetic to people of African origin \u0026ndash; \u0026lsquo;definite hostility\u0026rsquo;, according to Selwyn R. Cudjoe  (\u003Cem class=\u0022emphasisClass\u0022\u003EV.S. Naipaul: A Materialist Reading\u003C\/em\u003E, University of Massachusetts Press, distributed in the UK by Eurospan, 304 pp., $13.95, October 1988, 0 87023 630 2). Cudjoe  commends Naipaul\u0026rsquo;s honesty on this issue but adds: \u0026lsquo;His relationship with Africans remains a puzzling enigma and brings him to a dead end. He can go no further creatively until he comes to terms  with the African part of his heritage.\u0026rsquo; Another book about Naipaul, primarily interested in the works and traditions that have affected his writing about colonialism and post-colonialism, and less  \u003Cem class=\u0022emphasisClass\u0022\u003Eparti-pris\u003C\/em\u003E politically, is John Thieme\u0026rsquo;s \u003Cem class=\u0022emphasisClass\u0022\u003EThe Web of Tradition: Uses of Allusion in V.S. Naipaul\u0026rsquo;s Fiction\u003C\/em\u003E (Hansib\/Dangaroo, \u0026pound;6.95, 224  pp., 1987).\u003C\/p\u003E\n","audio":[],"video":[]}