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The Columbia History of the British NovelInstead she stops, trusting to the heaven's command of the Raj to see them safely home. She is spared, the teacher is not. He's beaten to death because he's with her, an Englishwoman; because the British can no longer protect those whom it is their selfappointed mission to protect. Miss Crane cannot protect her subordinate because her very presence makes him vulnerable in the first place. The imperial mission cancels itself out. Not only can the British no longer preserve the order they take as a justification for their rule; they are themselves responsible for its destruction. If one of the central concerns of British fiction about India is suggested by the ambiguous title of Suleri's Rhetoric of English India, then the dominant issue in the British novel of Africa is that figured by Abdul JanMohamed's Manichean Aesthetics. Suleri charts the rhetoric that links English writing about India to Indians writing in English; she maps the border of identity crossed first by Kim and later by such cultural hybrids as Rushdie's Saladin Chamcha in The Satanic Verses (1988) ...» |
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