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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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Scott, Paul, 1920-1978. Raj quartet.
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Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 -- Knowledge -- India
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Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's children.
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Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 fast |
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Midnight's children (Rushdie, Salman) fast |
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Raj quartet (Scott, Paul) fast |
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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National characteristics, British, in literature.
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Indic fiction (English) -- History and criticism
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Anglo-Indian fiction -- History and criticism
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Decolonization in literature.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Anglo-Indian fiction
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Decolonization in literature
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English fiction
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Imperialism in literature
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Indic fiction (English)
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Literature
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National characteristics, British, in literature
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India -- In literature
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India
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780226304762 |
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0226304760 |
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