Abstract
ABSTRACT In Maugham’s short story “The Outstation”, Warburton, the Resident in a remote sector of Borneo reifies Anderson’s imagined community. Warburton is lord of the realm but has an encompassing lack of self-awareness complemented by superhuman self-control. Maugham’s story is a dense web of class and race conflict. The protagonist, Warburton, and the antagonist, Cooper, his lower-class assistant, are locked in a struggle that chisels away the façade of Empire and offers a perspective on authority that requires more than an essentialist reading of identity. Warburton admires the Malays and is proud of the regard with which he is held in the colony, not by his confreres, but by the Malays. Cooper despises both the Malays and Warburton. Warburton and Cooper play out a deadly game of “power and privilege” that fronts post-colonial concepts of identity and authority.
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