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Compromise and resistance in Postcolonial writing : E.M. Forster's legacy /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Basingstoke] :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.