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Bearing the White Man's Burden: Misrecognition and Cultural Difference in E. M. Forster's A Passage to India

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From: Novel
Date: 20060401
Author:Christensen, Timothy

India and the Problem of Representation in A Passage to India

Since the publication of A Passage to India in 1922, writers and critics of the most widely disparate views have expressed the belief that E. M. Forster's final novel examines issues of representation in a characteristically mod ernist fashion. Lionel Trilling, in what was perhaps the most influential reading of the novel during Forster's lifetime, quotes Forster's dictum that "[possession is one with loss" in order to explain the central problems of aesthetic representation dealt with in Passage (21). Benita Parry argues that ...

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