Stereotypes in Fictionalized India - A Feminist and Post-Colonial Reading of E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India
Stereotypes in Fictionalized India - A Feminist and Post-Colonial Reading of E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India
Author(s): Adriana Răducanu Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Summary/Abstract: "Post-colonialism and feminism are related bodies of thought concerned with fictional representation of the marginalized ‘Other’ (colonized subjects and women). The stereotype image of the colonized seen as genderized into women due to the association with weakness, irrationality, passivity and disempowerment is present in many colonial writings A Passage to India among them. "
Journal: Gender Studies
- Issue Year: 2005
- Issue No: 04
- Page Range: 31-37
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
