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Queer Colonial Ambivalence in E.M. Forster's "The Life to Come" and "The Other Boat"
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Queer Colonial Ambivalence in E.M. Forster's "The Life to Come" and "The Other Boat"
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Somers, Jessica Elizabeth, author.
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9780438070080
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1 electronic resource (43 pages)
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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06M(E).
Advisors: Benjamin Bateman Committee members: Hema Chari; Maria Karafilis; Andrew Knighton.
Özet:
Remarkably little has been written about E.M. Forster's lesser-known, posthumously published short stories, largely for their inability to fit neatly within the confines of the Forster canon. This project explores how Forster's "The Life to Come" and "The Other Boat," as texts that feature same-sex intimacy within the British-Indian colonial space, theorize the uncertain, destabilized, and destabilizing colonial dynamic as inherently queer due to the gaps and overlaps of power that render inter-imperial relations within the colony precarious. I posit that the queer colonial space commences with the renunciation of Biblical and colonial concepts at the opening of each story and is furthered through the subversive tools of hybridity and mimicry that are employed by the colonized Other. The colonized character's mimicry and appropriation of the edicts of the colonizer render him a hybrid figure that in the end proves problematic for the British imperialist, as he comes to identify with his supposed colonial inferior. These problematic relations eventually lend to the murder-suicides that punctuate each story and foretell an afterlife that is ambivalent in its ability to provide both queer intimacy and colonial retribution.
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School code: 0962
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