04253nam 2200733 a 450 991077700940332120220420212129.00-226-30476-01-299-10461-410.7208/9780226304762(CKB)1000000000415566(EBL)408168(OCoLC)476227718(SSID)ssj0000099991(PQKBManifestationID)11566153(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099991(PQKBWorkID)10019808(PQKB)10657418(MiAaPQ)EBC408168(DE-B1597)524487(OCoLC)1055278091(DE-B1597)9780226304762(Au-PeEL)EBL408168(CaPaEBR)ebr10229994(CaONFJC)MIL441711(EXLCZ)99100000000041556619960523d1997 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAfter empire[electronic resource] Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie /Michael GorraChicago University of Chicago Press19971 online resource (220 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-30475-2 0-226-30474-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --Introduction. After Empire --1. The Situation: Paul Scott and The Raj Qwrtet --2. V. S. Naipaul: In His Father's House --3. The Novel in an Age of Ideology: On the Form of Midnight's Children --Appendix to Chapter 3. "Burn the Books and Trust the Book": The Satanic Verses, February 1989 --Conclusion. Notes towards a Redefinition of Englishness --Notes --IndexIn 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 Rushdie, the two great novelists of the Indian diaspora. Whereas Naipaul's long and controversial career maps the "deep disorder" spread by both imperialism and its passing, Rushdie demonstrates that certain consequences of that disorder, such as migrancy and mimicry, have themselves become creative forces. After Empire provides engaging and enlightening readings of postcolonial fiction, showing how imperialism helped shape British national identity-and how, after the end of empire, that identity must now be reconfigured.English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismNational characteristics, British, in literatureIndic fiction (English)History and criticismAnglo-Indian fictionHistory and criticismDecolonization in literatureImperialism in literatureIndiaIn literatureempire, imperialism, colonialism, british, literature, identity, race, salman rushdie, paul scott, vs naipaul, raj quartet, difference, multiracial, binary, england, india, diaspora, migrant, mimicry, midnights children, decolonization, satanic verses, englishness, domestic, nationality, nationalism, nonfiction, novels, politics, history, social change, power, authority, language, control.English fictionHistory and criticism.National characteristics, British, in literature.Indic fiction (English)History and criticism.Anglo-Indian fictionHistory and criticism.Decolonization in literature.Imperialism in literature.823/.91409358Gorra Michael Edward174961MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777009403321After empire540513UNINA