Forster's A Passage to India - An Anthology of Recent Criticism

Author: G K DasChristel R Devadawson/Editor(s): G K Das / Christel R DevadawsonPublisher: Pencraft InternationalYear: 2005Language: EnglishPages: 230ISBN/UPC (if available): 81857553660 DescriptionHow well has A Passage to India worn? This critical anthology responds by putting together postcolonial, feminist, liberal and several other voices of today which talk to each other and talk across each other to the text. The volume interrogates afresh the major characters of the text, polarities between Hinduism and Islam, myths and possibilities of cross-cultural friendships, muddle and mystery of the rape, cultural paradigms of the colony and the empire, and other key issues. Eighty years down the road, it attempts a searching study of this canonical text.In the essays that deal with a Passage to India, race, class and gender are used as critical categories that constitute human experience in terms of multiple contexts. Setting aside the essay reprinted in the present collection, those tha