TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gorra,Michael Edward
TI  - After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie 
SN  - 0226304760 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PR888.I6 G67 1997eb
U1  - 823/.91409358 20
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Chicago, Ill.
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Scott, Paul,
KW  - Naipaul, V. S.
KW  - Rushdie, Salman.
KW  - Rushdie, Salman,
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - National characteristics, British, in literature
KW  - Indic fiction (English)
KW  - Anglo-Indian fiction
KW  - Decolonization in literature
KW  - Imperialism in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
KW  - India
KW  - In literature
KW  - ინგლისური ლიტერატურა
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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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