1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910708147903321

Titolo

"United States Secret Service : an agency in crisis" / / report by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 438 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Report / 114th Congress, 1st session, House of Representatives ; ; 114-385

Soggetti

Presidents - Protection - United States

Labor discipline

Management

Presidents - Protection

Security systems

Legislative materials.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Jan. 7, 2016).

"December 18, 2015."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784552403321

Autore

Nixon Rob <1954->

Titolo

London calling [[Recurso electrónico] ] : V.S. Naipaul, postcolonial Mandarin / / Rob Nixon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1992

©1992

ISBN

0-19-772498-1

1-280-44071-6

0-19-536196-2

1-60129-799-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

823.914

Soggetti

Authors, Trinidadian - History and criticism

Intercultural communication in literature

Culture conflict in literature

Postcolonialism in literature

Travel in literature

Autobiography

London (England) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Naipaul's Chronology; Introduction; 1. The License of Exile; 2. Naipaul and the Traditions of Travel; 3. At the Generic Crossroads: Travel Writing, Ethnography, and Autobiography; 4. Preparations for Travel: Naipaul's Conradian Atavism; 5. The Terms of Dismissal: 'Barbarism,' 'Primitivism,' and 'Simple Societies'; 6. 'Mimicry,' 'Parasitism,' and Resistance; Conclusion: A Kinder, Gentler Naipaul?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Challenging the popular view that Naipaul is a literary mediator between First and Third World experience in the post-colonial era, this study argues that his work articulates a set of values that perpetuates



political interests that have their origin in the Imperial age.