After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie

by Michael Gorra

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226304752

ISBN13:9780226304755

Release Date:March 1997

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:218 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory Ethnic Studies History & Criticism Humanities Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Politics & Social Sciences

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