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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Autore principale: Gorra, Michael Edward
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Accesso online:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=35144
Sommario:
  • 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.