Protest Politics

How to reposition Naipaul’s early or Trinidadian novels is worthy of our research. In the light of the close reading of his early novels, we figure out that Naipaul’s early great success should, to a great degree, attribute to his aesthetics of protest politics, and these four novels should be regarded as a whole, which shows Naipaul’s insistently thinking traces on the plight of the colonized, Trinidadian. Beginning with the expression of negative protest in Miguel Street and then continuing with the disclose of the nationalism’s trap and the fallacy of democracy respectively in The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira, finally Naipaul artistically achieves the possibility of protest in A House for Mr. Biswas.The thesis consists of five parts. The main content can be divided into three chapters judging from these three protest phases between introduction and conclusion. The first chapter analyzes the phase of negative protest. Naipaul holds the negative attitude in that the protagonist in Miguel Street finally chooses to desperately escape from the Hindu community; the second chapter argues the strategy of his protest. Naipaul’s protest politics employ satire to wisely reveal nationalism’s trap and the fallacy of democracy that will respectively represent in The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira. Violence protest in the end of the novels shows the intensification of his protest; the third chapter discusses his artistical achievement of protest politics. The hero enters the inner structure of the colonizer. Naipaul from individual perspective makes the protest politics from the insider, the Tulsi family. As Biswas protests from the introvert structure of colonial rule, in addition to the extrovert influence, the Hannuman Mansion, the symbol of the colonizer, finally collapses.The thesis draws the conclusion that as Naipaul’s early political writing from three mainly protest targets, the Hindu community, the nationalist, the colonizer, comprehensively analyzes the Status Quo of Trinidad under the control of the colonizer as well as its serious consequence the colonizer results in, Naipaul’s protest politics become sharpener and more focused, which intensifies the effect of protest politics. Naipaul finally achieves the protest possibility.