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The present article tackles the concepts of literacy, imagination and autonomy in A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) by V. S. Naipaul. The novel reveals that the spread of the English language and Englishness became inevitable during British Imperialism since one of the instruments for its propagation was the imposition of the colonizer’s set of values. It will be shown that although limited and detached from the learners’ reality depicted in the narrative, the missionary school education engendered the imagination as a driving force upon which the protagonist, Mr. Biswas, relies in order to achieve his dreams of autonomy. Theory is mostly foregrounded on works by David Slater, Boaventura dos Santos and Diana Brydon.  O presente artigo versa sobre os conceitos de letramento (literacy), imaginação e autonomia em A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), de V. S. Naipaul. O romance revela que a difusão da língua inglesa e da inglesidade (englishness) tornou-se inevitável durante o imperialismo britânico, na medida em que estes eram instrumentos de propagação dos valores do colonizador. Demonstraremos que, apesar de limitada e desvinculada da realidade retratada na obra, era a educação proporcionada pelas escolas de missionários que engendrava a imaginação, força motriz que permite ao protagonista, Sr. Biswas, alcançar o seu desejo de autonomia. O campo teórico é constituído principalmente pelos estudos de David Slater, Boaventura dos Santos e Diana Brydon

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