After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie - Couverture souple

Gorra, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226304752 ISBN 13 : 9780226304755

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1997

Synopsis

After Empire - Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie Explores the ways in which three novelists of empire - Paul Scott, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie - have charted the blurred boundaries of identity in the wake of British imperialism. This text provides readings of post-colonial fiction, showing how imperialism shaped British national identity. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0226304752
• ISBN 13: 9780226304755
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 218