关键词: 奈保尔, 《模仿者》, 加勒比, 世界文学, 全球南方

Abstract: Although Pascale Casanova classifies V. S. Naipaul as an “assimilated” figure in world literature, the writer Singh in The Mimic Men embodies qualities that align more closely with Casanova’s concept of “the rebel.” In The Red and the Black, Caribbean experience is reduced to a parenthetical aside, whereas Singh, in contrast to Stendhal’s approach, presents his own life through a full-length memoir. Furthermore, Singh holds starkly different evaluations of his marriage and political career: the former is negatively depicted as an episode enclosed in parentheses, while the latter is endowed with historical value as a search for a new order. By juxtaposing Singh’s reverse-chronological narrative with his father’s ritual of the “aśvamedha” and the emergence of the Non-Aligned Movement in the Global South, Naipaul positions writing itself as an indispensable dimension of the Global South’s struggle for a new international order.

Key words: V. S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men, the Caribbean, world literature, Global South