A Passage to India
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Bibliographic Information
A Passage to India
(Theory in practice series / general editor, Nigel Wood)
Open University Press, 1994
- : pbk
Available at 12 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and further readings (p. [159]-168) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
E.M. Forster's last novel extends and often questions the liberal assumptions usually associated with his work. It has been widely regarded as a painful rite of passage, written soon after the death of one of his closest friends; and thus it is understood as a searching criticism of "Anglo-India", not least in portraying the tragic collision between Imperialist duty and personal values. This volume of specially commissioned essays contains examples of how the newest critical thinking on the novel and its context may produce a range of different practical approaches. Close consideration is given to the representation of gender and race as well as the often coded expression of Forster's hopes for a homosocial culture. Sections in each essay locate a context for the theories adopted and explain any unfamiliar terms. There then follows and interpretation of the work guided by these theoretical concepts. An introduction by one of the volume editors supplies an account of the critical history of the novel and also considers the degree to which it may have derived from Forster's ideas on culture and politics in general.
This also provides a survey of the most recent criticism and some indication of how this has affected the practical approaches to his work.
Table of Contents
- How to use this book
- the politics of desire - E.M. Forster's encounters with India
- law and order in "A Passage to India"
- of mimicry an dEnglish men - E.M. Forster and the performance of masculinity
- representing the unrepresentable - Alice Jardine's gynesis and E.M. Forster's "A Passage to India"
- endpiece.
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