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ara Suleri
The Pakistani-Welsh post-colonial critic Sara Suleri challenges
the conventions of colonial discourse which separate the works
of Western and non-Western writers. In her powerfully argued
study, The Rhetoric of English India (1992), she asserts that
both colonial writers and colonized writers collude in producing
master narratives. Writers such as Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)
and V.S. Naipaul (b. 1932) are seduced into a curious belief.
She presents the idea of "English India" to emphasize that there
is no distinction between colonial and post-colonial history and
to show continuity between the Raj and modern India.
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