In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit
his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of
modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably
prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean
societies-countries haunted by the legacies of slavery and
colonialism and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire that
they can scarcely believe that the Empire is ending.
In The Middle Passage, Naipaul watches a Trinidadian movie audience
greeting Humphrey Bogart's appearance with cries of "That is man "
He ventures into a Trinidad slum so insalubrious that the locals
call it the Gaza Strip. He follows a racially charged election
campaign in British Guiana (now Guyana) and marvels at the Gallic
pretension of Martinique society, which maintains the fiction that
its roads are extensions of France's "routes nationales." And
throughout he relates the ghastly episodes of the region's colonial
past and shows how they continue to inform its language, politics,
and values. The result is a work of novelistic vividness and
dazzling perspicacity that displays Naipaul at the peak of his
powers.
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