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The partial postcoloniality of Julian Barnes's Arthur & George
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Julian Barnes’s 2005 novel Arthur & George, unlike the rest of his oeuvre, has been read as a “subtly postcolonial narrative” (Boehmer, Indian Arrivals 198). His fictionalized historical portrait of the English-Indian lawyer George Edalji contributes to the postcolonial project of making empire visible within Britain. Barnes’s postcolonialism, however, is only partial. The Edaljis are isolated in Barnes’s otherwise completely white Edwardian England. Furthermore, Barnes’s depiction of Art...
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- Indiana University Press
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- Journal of Modern Literature More from this journal
- Volume:
- 41
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 112-128
- Publication date:
- 2018-03-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-03-23
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1529-1464
- ISSN:
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0022-281X
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- 2018
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- Copyright © The Trustees of Indiana University. This is the publisher's version of the article, which is available online at: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.41.2.07
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