04125nam 22008295 450 991096993770332120240923163435.09781137288936113728893010.1057/9781137288936(CKB)2670000000528386(EBL)1645512(SSID)ssj0001292286(PQKBManifestationID)11701421(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001292286(PQKBWorkID)11283024(PQKB)10124039(OCoLC)882252371(MiAaPQ)EBC1645512(DE-He213)978-1-137-28893-6(Perlego)3485168(EXLCZ)99267000000052838620151208d2014 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCompromise and Resistance in Postcolonial Writing E. M. Forster's Legacy /by Alberto Fernández Carbajal1st ed. 2014.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2014.1 online resource (264 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781349450015 1349450014 9781137288929 1137288922 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; Conclusion2 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 BeautySalman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last SighZadie Smith's On Beauty; Conclusion; Conclusion: Towards a Cosmopolitan Humanism; Notes; Bibliography; IndexCompromise 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 literatureLiteraturePhilosophyCultureStudy and teachingLiterature, Modern20th centuryLiteratureEuropean literatureAfrican LiteratureLiterary TheoryCultural TheoryTwentieth-Century LiteratureWorld LiteratureEuropean LiteratureAfrican literature.LiteraturePhilosophy.CultureStudy and teaching.Literature, ModernLiterature.European literature.African Literature.Literary Theory.Cultural Theory.Twentieth-Century Literature.World Literature.European Literature.823.912Fernández Carbajal Albertoauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1103758BOOK9910969937703321Compromise and Resistance in Postcolonial Writing4331140UNINA