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Compromise and Resistance in Postcolonial Writing : E. M. Forster's Legacy / by Alberto Fernández Carbajal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fernández Carbajal, Alberto, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African literature.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- European literature.
- African Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- World Literature.
- European Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- African Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- World Literature.
- European Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137288936
- 1137288930
- OCLC:
- 882252371
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