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After Empire (Paperback, New edition)
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After Empire (Paperback, New edition)
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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 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.
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