After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie

by Michael Gorra

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226304752
• ISBN13: 9780226304755
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"