Compromise and resistance in Postcolonial writing : E.M. Forster's legacy

Compromise and resistance in Postcolonial writing : E.M. Forster's legacy / Alberto Fernández Carbajal.

"Compromise and Resistance in Postcolonial Writing" reclaims the figure of E.M. Forster for a new generation of readers. It examines how writers from several postcolonial nations, including Britain, do not 'write back' to Forster antithetically but draw inspiration from his influ...

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Main Author: Fernández Carbajal, Alberto (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Basingstoke] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:
Forster, E. M. > (Edward Morgan), > 1879-1970.
Forster, E. M. > (Edward Morgan), > 1879-1970
Postcolonialism in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Postcolonialism in literature
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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