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1 online resource (x, 207 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
The situation: Paul Scott and the Raj Quartet -- V.S. Naipaul: in his father's house -- The novel in an age of ideology: on the form of midnight's children -- Appendix to ch. 3. "Burn the books and trust the book": the satanic verses, February 1989. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Scott, Paul, 1920-1978. Raj quartet.
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Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 -- Knowledge and learning -- India.
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Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018. |
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India. |
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Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's children.
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Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932- -- Knowledge -- India. |
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Rushdie, Salman, 1947- Midnight's children. |
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Midnight's children (Rushdie, Salman) |
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Raj quartet (Scott, Paul) |
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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20th century |
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National characteristics, British, in literature.
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National characteristics, British, in literature. |
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Indic fiction (English) -- History and criticism.
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Indic fiction (English) |
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Anglo-Indian fiction -- History and criticism.
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Anglo-Indian fiction. |
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Decolonization in literature.
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Decolonization in literature. |
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Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism in literature. |
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India -- In literature.
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gorra, Michael Edward. After Empire. Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997 0226304744 (DLC) 96023769 (OCoLC)34886185 |
| ISBN |
0226304760 (electronic book) |
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9780226304762 (electronic book) |
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9780226304748 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226304755 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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0226304744 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226304752 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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