After Empire

Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie

By: Michael Gorra

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Paperback | 15 March 1997 | Edition Number 1

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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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Introduction After Empire
The Situation: Paul Scott and The Raj Quartet
V. S. Naipaul: In His Father's House
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
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Index
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