After Empire : Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie.
In After Empire Michael Gorra explores how three novelists of empirePaul Scott, V.S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdiehave 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...
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Language: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1997.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- AFTER EMPIRE; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Situation: Paul Scott and The Raj Quartet; 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; Conlusion Notes towards a Redefinition of Englishness; Notes; Index.