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"Contrary to the prevailing current?" Homoeroticism and the voice of maternal law in Forster's "The Other Boat." (E.M. Forster)

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Date: 19950922
Author:Dorland, Tamera

In his posthumously published "The Other Boat" (1972), E. M. Forster seeks to transform proscribed desire into a "confession of the flesh."(1) Captain Lionel March's "stumbling confession" and "open avowal" of having "'fallen for'" his bunkmate Cocoanut ("Other Boat" 186-87) attests to Foucault's rather poetic claim in "A Preface to Transgression" that sexuality exposes "the limit of language, since it traces that line of foam showing just how far speech may advance upon the sands of silence" (Language 30). Liminally caught between speech and silence, confession and suppression, ...

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