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After Empire [electronic resource] : Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie / Michael Gorra.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (x, 207 p.)ISBN:
  • 0226304760 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780226304762 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: After Empire.DDC classification:
  • 823/.91409358 20
LOC classification:
  • PR888.I6 G67 1997eb
Online resources: Summary: 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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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 821.111.09 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

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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