A Study of A Passage to India Through the Lens of Orientalism

• 作者: LIN Ling-yu
• 来源期刊: 文学与艺术研究:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: A PASSAGE to INDIA ORIENTALISM DISCOURSE DECONSTRUCTION
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（4）
• 页码范围: 376-381
• 页数: 6页
• 分类号: I

摘要

A Passage to India is a representative novel by E. M. Forster. His insightful exploration of the relationship between Britain and the colony India in early 20th century guarantees it a seat among the classics of the world’s colonist literature. E. M. Forster’s ideas in A Passage to India exhibit many affinities with Edward Said’s thoughts in his Orientalism. This paper, therefore, aims to offer an interpretation of A Passage to India by using Said’s philosophy of the Orientalism as the theoretical framework. Due to Forster’s dual consciousness revealed in the novel, this paper will focus on two aspects, namely, the reflection of his colonialist ideology and his anti-colonial humanistic sense.