After Empire : Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie /

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, G...

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Auteur principal: Gorra, Michael Edward
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Accès en ligne:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=35144
Table des matières:
  • 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.