For 10 points, name this author of A Bend in the River.
Rob Nixon argued that this author's literature displayed the fact that he had become an Englishman by employing "Conradian atavism." Selwyn Cudgoe ["CUD"-"joe"] examined a change in ethnic focus from this author's first novel, in which a pundit performs an exorcism on Hector and runs for legislative office, to caricatures of Africans in this author's story "The Crocodiles of Yamoussokro." This author had a noted 1996 falling-out between with (*) Paul Theroux, but made up with him in 2011. The experience of this author with the socialite landlord Stephen Tennant formed the basis of a novel in which he emigrates to New York City, titled The Enigma of Arrival. Edward Said denounced this author as a "native informant" for novels such as one about a state-designated Domain, which caricatures Mobutu Sese-Seko as The Big Man. For 10 points, name this author of A Bend in the River.
Rob Nixon argued that this author's literature displayed the fact that he had become an Englishman by employing "Conradian atavism."
V. S. Naipaul