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1022587
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b776957
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Gorra, Michael Edward.
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After Empire : : Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie /\ Michael Gorra.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago, Ill. :: University of Chicago Press,, 1997.
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1 online resource (x, 207 pages)
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| ISBN
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0226304760
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: 9780226304762
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0226304744
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0226304752
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9780226304748
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9780226304755
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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 ch. 3. "Burn the books and trust the book": the satanic verses, February 1989.
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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.
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Naipaul, V. S., (Vidiadhar Surajprasad),1932-2018-- Knowledge-- India.
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Rushdie, Salman., Midnight's children.
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Scott, Paul,1920-1978., Raj quartet.
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Naipaul, V. S., (Vidiadhar Surajprasad),1932-2018
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Anglo-Indian fiction-- History and criticism.
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Decolonization in literature.
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English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Indic fiction (English)-- History and criticism.
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National characteristics, British, in literature.
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Anglo-Indian fiction.
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Decolonization in literature.
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English fiction.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Indic fiction (English)
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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National characteristics, British, in literature.
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Midnight's children (Rushdie, Salman)
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Raj quartet (Scott, Paul)
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India, In literature.
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India.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.91409358
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| LC Classification
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PR888.I6G67 1997eb
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