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Author:

Fernández Carbajal, Alberto, author.

Title:

Compromise and resistance in postcolonial writing : E.M. Forster's legacy / Alberto Fernández Carbajal, University of Leicester, UK.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xi, 251 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Forster, E. M.--(Edward Morgan),--1879-1970--Criticism and interpretation.
Forster, E. M.--(Edward Morgan),--1879-1970--Influence.
English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Forster, Edward M.,--1879-1970.
Rezeption.
Englisch.
Roman.
Postkolonialismus.
Forster, Edward Morgan,--(1879-1970)--Critique et interprétation.
Forster, E. M.--(Edward Morgan),--1879-1970.
English fiction.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Postcolonialism in literature.
1900 - 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-238) and index.

Contents:

Conclusion: Towards a cosmopolitan humanism. 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.

ISBN:

9781137288929
1137288922

OCLC:

(OCoLC)863595935

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)