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Author Gorra, Michael

Title After Empire : Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (220 pages)
Contents AFTER EMPIRE; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Situation: Paul Scott and The Raj Quartet; 2 V.S. Naipaul: In His Father's House; 3 The Novel in an Age of Ideology: On the Form of Midnight's Children; Appendix to Chapter 3 "Burn the Books and Trust the Book": The Satanic Verses, February 1989; Conlusion Notes towards a Redefinition of Englishness; Notes; Index
Summary In After Empire Michael Gorra explores how three novelists of empirePaul Scott, V.S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdiehave charted the perpetually drawn and perpetually blurred boundaries of identity left in the wake of British imperialism. Arguing against a model of cultural identity based on race, Gorra begins with Scott's portrait, in The Raj Quartet, of the character Hari Kumara seeming oxymoron, an "English boy with a dark brown skin," whose very existence undercuts the belief in an absolute distinction between England and India. He then turns to the opposed figures of Naipaul and
Analysis empire, imperialism, colonialism, british, literature, identity, race, salman rushdie, paul scott, vs naipaul, raj quartet, difference, multiracial, binary, england, india, diaspora, migrant, mimicry, midnights children, decolonization, satanic verses, englishness, domestic, nationality, nationalism, nonfiction, novels, politics, history, social change, power, authority, language, control
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Subject Scott, Paul, 1920-1978. Raj quartet.
Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 -- Knowledge -- India
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's children.
SUBJECT Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 fast
Midnight's children (Rushdie, Salman) fast
Raj quartet (Scott, Paul) fast
Subject English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
National characteristics, British, in literature.
Indic fiction (English) -- History and criticism
Anglo-Indian fiction -- History and criticism
Decolonization in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Anglo-Indian fiction
Decolonization in literature
English fiction
Imperialism in literature
Indic fiction (English)
Literature
National characteristics, British, in literature
SUBJECT India -- In literature
Subject India
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226304762
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