Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

After Empire : Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie / / Michael Gorra



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Gorra Michael Edward Visualizza persona
Titolo: After Empire : Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie / / Michael Gorra Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1997
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 p.)
Disciplina: 823/.91409358
Soggetto topico: English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
National characteristics, British, in literature
Indic fiction (English) - History and criticism
Anglo-Indian fiction - History and criticism
Decolonization in literature
Imperialism in literature
Soggetto geografico: India In literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
Titolo autorizzato: After empire  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-226-30476-0
1-299-10461-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910822125703321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui