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Compromise and Resistance in Postcolonial Writing This page intentionally left blank Compromise and Resistance in Postcolonial Writing E. M. Forster’s Legacy Alberto Fernández Carbajal University of Leicester, UK © Alberto Fernández Carbajal 2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-28892-9 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-45001-5 ISBN 978-1-137-28893-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137288936 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by MPS Limited, Chennai, India. For Antony Beerepoot This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements ix Note on the Publication of Primary Texts xi Introduction – Liberal, Humanist, Modernist, Queer? Reclaiming Forster’s Legacies 1 Beyond ‘The Empire Writes Back’ 4 Parody, intertextuality, influence 7 Liberal humanist? 11 Modernist? 16 Manifest and spectral legacies 18 Queer? 21 Negotiating the ‘postcolonial’ 24 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 29 Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet 32 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust 50 Conclusion 67 2 Shattered Realities, Torn Nations: (Post)Modernism in J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur and Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day 70 J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur 72 Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day 90 Conclusion 109 3 Of ‘planetary strangers’: Humanism in Nadine Gordimer’s The Lying Days and Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient 112 Nadine Gordimer’s The Lying Days 114 Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient 132 Conclusion 152 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 155 Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and The Moor’s Last Sigh 158 vii viii Contents Zadie Smith’s On Beauty 178 Conclusion 196 Conclusion: Towards a Cosmopolitan Humanism 199 Notes 207 Bibliography 224 Index 239 Acknowledgements My greatest personal and intellectual debt for the writing of this book is with John McLeod, whose influence on the range and richness of this study cannot be overstated; I must thank him for the rigour and generosity with which he chiselled my thinking into shape and for remaining such a source of support and inspiration after completing my PhD. For a discipline that has allegedly been dying for the last two decades, postcolonial studies has plunged me into a vibrant commu- nity full of friendship, expertise and collegiality; for these, and for their encouragement over the years, thanks are due to Allison Athens, Clare Barker, Catherine Bates, Richard Brock, Isabel Carrera Suárez, Anthony Carrigan, Claire Chambers, Shirley Chew, Pilar Cuder Domínguez, Natalie Diebschlag, Sam Durrant, Lucy Evans, Corinne Fowler, Luz Mar González Arias, Dave Gunning, Daisy Hassan, Caroline Herbert, Reshma Jagernath, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Sam Knowles, Sarah Lawson, Milena Marinkova, Donna McCormack, Lindsey Moore, Stuart Murray, Judie Newman, Brendon Nicholls, Jeffrey Orr, Ecaterina Patrascu, Shital Pravinchandra, James Procter, Don Randall, Gillian Roberts, Emma Smith, Neelam Srivastava, Babita Thanoo, Abigail Ward and Alan Ward. I must thank the School of English at the University of Leeds for the bursary that enabled my doctoral work in the first instance, out of which came this project. The writing of books requires an empty, quiet room, but it needs in equal measure the cheer of a strong and loyal support network. My most personal debts lie with my family and friends for bearing the brunt of both my presence and my absence; most special thanks must go to my parents Gabriel Fernández and Ana María Carbajal and my sister Lucía Fernández, to her husband Carlos Alonso and my nephews Elías and Darío, and to Ángeles Carbajal, Tarsila Fernández, Ana Prado, Carlos Rico, Graci Díaz, Iván Sánchez, María Glez. Rodríguez, Sara Álvarez, Claire Armstrong, Sue Baker, Charlotte Baxter, Jo Beerepoot, Jennifer Blaikie, Ellen Boon, Katherine Bower, Kate Bowker, Victoria, Paul and Lawrence Browning, Christine Chettle, Cristina Fdez. Rico, Marta Fdez. Sanjosé, Stuart Forward, Marisa García, Daniel Glez.-Nuevo Galán, Alberto Gómez, Tracy Hargreaves, Tasha Harrison, Jo Ivie, Alejandra Lapeña, Javier López Saldaña, Aida Martínez Suárez, Ana Mongelos, Naiara Muro Uribesalazar, Lucía Pernía, Carlos Pons Guerra, ix
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