Compromise and Resistance in Postcolonial Writing : E. M. Forster's Legacy / / by Alberto Fernández Carbajal

• Autore: Fernández Carbajal Alberto
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2014.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.912
• Soggetto topico: African literature; Literature - Philosophy; Culture - Study and teaching; Literature, Modern - 20th century; Literature; European literature; African Literature; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Twentieth-Century Literature; World Literature; European Literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Compromise and Resistance in Postcolonial Writing
• ISBN: 9781137288936; 1137288930
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910969937703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II