Resistance and Opposition: Modernism and Anti-imperialism in A Passage to India
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Hsu, Chun-Chieh
Abstract
In my thesis, I argue that the modernism of A Passage is able to serve as a self-reflexive critique on the imperial elements of Western humanism. Moreover, I contend that A Passage’s modernism has the potential to manifest resistance and independence for the Indian other against the British imperialism. In Chapter One of my thesis, I intend to demonstrate how modernism reveals the hybridity in the colonial contact to expose the limitations of Western humanism, which the West had long professed as universal. In the second chapter, I claim that, through the Marabar Caves episode and its following development, the modernism in A Passage can diagnose the imperial elements in humanism and reveal the British historiography of the Indian Mutiny as an Orientalist construction which consolidates British imperialism. In my final chapter, I argue that the indeterminacy of modernist language in A Passage reveals the potential to voice Indian resistance and independence against the British imperialism.
Subjects
Modernism
Self-reflexive
Humanism
Hybridity
Marabar Caves episode
Indian Mutiny
Imperialism
Resistance
Independence
Type
thesis
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