Compromise and resistance in postcolonial writing : E.M. Forster's legacy
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Compromise and resistance in postcolonial writing : E.M. Forster's legacy
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Bibliography: p. 224-238
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Compromise and Resistance in Postcolonial Writing offers a new critical approach to E. M. Forster's legacy. It examines key themes in Forster's work (homosexuality, humanism, modernism, liberalism) and their relevance to post-imperial and postcolonial novels by important contemporary writers.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction - Liberal, Humanist, Modernist, Queer? Reclaiming Forster's Legacies 1. 'He is One of Your Hollow Men': Homosexuality and Sublimation in Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust 2. Shattered Realities, Torn Nations: (Post)Modernism in J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur and Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day 3. Of 'Planetary strangers': Humanism in Nadine Gordimer's The Lying Days and Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient 4. The Politics of Friendship and Hospitality: Liberalism in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh and in Zadie Smith's On Beauty Conclusion: Towards a Cosmopolitan Humanism Bibliography
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