Compromise and Resistance in Postcolonial Writing [electronic resource] : E. M. Forster's Legacy /
Fernández Carbajal, Alberto.author.
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.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on the Publication of Primary Texts; Introduction - Liberal, Humanist, Modernist, Queer? Reclaiming Forster's Legacies; Beyond 'The Empire Writes Back'; Parody, intertextuality, influence; Liberal humanist?; Modernist?; Manifest and spectral legacies; Queer?; Negotiating the 'postcolonial'; 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; Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust; Conclusion
2 Shattered Realities, Torn Nations: (Post)Modernism in J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur and Anita Desai's Clear Light of DayJ. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur; Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day; Conclusion; 3 Of 'planetary strangers': Humanism in Nadine Gordimer's The Lying Days and Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient; Nadine Gordimer's The Lying Days; Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient; Conclusion; 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
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last SighZadie Smith's On Beauty; Conclusion; Conclusion: Towards a Cosmopolitan Humanism; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
African literature.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature   .
British literature.
African Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
British and Irish Literature.