After Empire [electronic resource] : Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie / Michael Gorra.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (x, 207 p.)ISBN:- 0226304760 (electronic bk.)
- 9780226304762 (electronic bk.)
- Scott, Paul, 1920- Raj quartet
- Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932- -- Knowledge -- India
- Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's children
- Scott, Paul, 1920-1978. Raj quartet
- Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932- -- Knowledge -- India
- Rushdie, Salman, 1947- Midnight's children
- 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
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Electronic books
- India -- In literature
- ინგლისური ლიტერატურა
- 823/.91409358 20
- PR888.I6 G67 1997eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
In After Empire Michael Gorra explores how three novelists of empire?Paul Scott, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie?have 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 Kumar?a 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.
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