Narration in E.M. Forster's "A Passage to India"
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The present paper explores E.M. Forster’s peculiar, yet elusive style in disclosing the racial and imperial thought embedded in the text and maintained by non-native people. Despite its ambivalent attitude towards the native, the novel’s discourse of benevolence and the rhetoric of the ‘mission civilisatrice’ could not hide the discourse of colonial domination. To unmask this view, Forster adopts a particular narratorial technique. Such an adoption, therefore, is to be explained through the study of the 'speech act' as one of the main angles to deal with narration in A Passage to India. Likewise, this paper attempts to study the ‘reporting act’ which requires analysing speech and thought representation in the novel.
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