Gorra, Michael Edward. <br/><br/>
After Empire  Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie /  [electronic resource] : 
Michael Gorra. 
 -  University of Chicago Press,  1997. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 207 p.) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0226304760 (electronic bk.) 9780226304762 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Scott, Paul, 1920-  Raj quartet. <br/>Naipaul, V. S. 1932- --Knowledge--India.<br/>Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's children. <br/>Scott, Paul, 1920-1978.  Raj quartet. <br/>Naipaul, V. S. 1932- --Knowledge--India.<br/>Rushdie, Salman, 1947-  Midnight's children. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>National characteristics, British, in literature.<br/>Indic fiction (English)--History and criticism.<br/>Anglo-Indian fiction--History and criticism.<br/>Decolonization in literature.<br/>Imperialism in literature.<br/>LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>India--In literature.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>ინგლისური ლიტერატურა 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR888.I6  / G67 1997eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823/.91409358 
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>821.111.09