Questions tagged [a-passage-to-india]
Questions related to the 1924 novel A Passage to India by the English author E. M. Forster. Use this tag with the [e-m-forster] tag.
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What does Forster mean by "Suspicion in the Oriental"?
I'm Asian and read p. 114 of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms by Lisa Lowe, but I'm still baffled by this quote at ThoughtCo. It feels too broadly generalized (and a shade ...
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Why isn't "white" related to colour and ''God save the King" with a god?
I first stumbled on this quote at ThoughtCo:
he did not realize that 'white' has no more to do with a colour than 'God save the King' with a god, and that it is the height of impropriety to consider ...
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How was "A Passage to India" received in Britain and India?
E. M. Forster's A Passage to India was published in 1924, in the decade after the Indian independence movement really started to gather steam. Forster incorporated this into his novel, showing the ...
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