V.S. NAIPAUL’S GUERILLAS AND CONSPIRACY THEORY
V.S. NAIPAUL’S GUERILLAS AND CONSPIRACY THEORY

Summary/Abstract: V.S. Naipaul’s Guerillas used an exceptional form of writing, in which a quintessential form of intertextuality dragged the novel into a possible conspiracy theory. What was seen on the surface was not exactly what the novel extrinsically brought forward. On the surface, there was a spooky relationship where an ostracized so-called leader, Jimmy Ahmed, pushed himself into the core of a struggle. Representing the notorious power relation between the Occident and the Orient, the scuffle between these two different poles, or characters, created a mysterious outcome, which in turn became part of a meticulous plan that redeemed the vengeance of the decolonized, or Ahmed himself. Ahmed’s evil strategy started as a personal dilemma, but arrived at a very distant point where his initial intention became blurred. Therefore, this article intends to decrypt the aforementioned conspiracy theory by applying an analysis through intertextuality to see what is beyond the struggles of multiculturalism. Sometimes, such multiculturalism won’t end positively since each person will remain, at the core, what he is made of: black or white; Muslim, Jewish or Christian; oppressor or oppressed.

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