The colonial discourse in E. M. Forster’s a passage to India
Author
Source
Applied Science Journal : Humanities Series
Issue
Vol. 25, Issue 2 (31 Dec. 2020), pp.1-8, 8 p.
Publisher
Applied Science Private University
Publication Date
2020-12-31
Country of Publication
Jordan
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Languages & Comparative Literature
Political Sciences
Literature
Abstract EN
This paper differs from the research of scholars who misinterpret E.
M.
Forster’s political novel A Passage to India as a story about the importance of cross-cultural friendship between English characters and Indians, while at the same time, overlook the fact that Forster suggests this intimacy to justify the English imperial practices in India.
Forster never implies throughout his novel that the British occupiers do not have the right to rule India or that the Indians are equal to the British.
On the contrary, Forster presents Indians as the inferior race who can not govern themselves, and that the presence of the English colonizers in India is justifiable.
English characters are introduced as superior citizens and those who communicate with Indians will pay the price of sedition and anti patriotism.
The mutiny of the Indians in the novel represents the need for the liberation of India and the end of British oppression.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Ghazw, Nuh Ibrahim Salih. 2020. The colonial discourse in E. M. Forster’s a passage to India. Applied Science Journal : Humanities Series،Vol. 25, no. 2, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1280096
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Ghazw, Nuh Ibrahim Salih. The colonial discourse in E. M. Forster’s a passage to India. Applied Science Journal : Humanities Series Vol. 25, no. 2 (2020), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1280096
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Ghazw, Nuh Ibrahim Salih. The colonial discourse in E. M. Forster’s a passage to India. Applied Science Journal : Humanities Series. 2020. Vol. 25, no. 2, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1280096
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
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BIM-1280096