LEADER 04273nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910822125703321 005 20240418124454.0 010 $a0-226-30476-0 010 $a1-299-10461-4 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226304762 035 $a(CKB)1000000000415566 035 $a(EBL)408168 035 $a(OCoLC)476227718 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000099991 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11566153 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099991 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10019808 035 $a(PQKB)10657418 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408168 035 $a(DE-B1597)524487 035 $a(OCoLC)1055278091 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226304762 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408168 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10229994 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL441711 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000415566 100 $a19960523d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfter empire$b[electronic resource] $eScott, Naipaul, Rushdie /$fMichael Gorra 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d1997 215 $a1 online resource (220 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-30475-2 311 0 $a0-226-30474-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tIntroduction. After Empire --$t1. The Situation: Paul Scott and The Raj Qwrtet --$t2. V. S. Naipaul: In His Father's House --$t3. The Novel in an Age of Ideology: On the Form of Midnight's Children --$tAppendix to Chapter 3. "Burn the Books and Trust the Book": The Satanic Verses, February 1989 --$tConclusion. Notes towards a Redefinition of Englishness --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, British, in literature 606 $aIndic fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAnglo-Indian fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDecolonization in literature 606 $aImperialism in literature 607 $aIndia$xIn literature 610 $aempire, imperialism, colonialism, british, literature, identity, race, salman rushdie, paul scott, vs naipaul, raj quartet, difference, multiracial, binary, england, india, diaspora, migrant, mimicry, midnights children, decolonization, satanic verses, englishness, domestic, nationality, nationalism, nonfiction, novels, politics, history, social change, power, authority, language, control. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, British, in literature. 615 0$aIndic fiction (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAnglo-Indian fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDecolonization in literature. 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 676 $a823/.91409358 700 $aGorra$b Michael Edward$0174961 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822125703321 996 $aAfter empire$9540513 997 $aUNINA