![]() ![]() ![]() This unusual approach allows for a rich accounting of the multitude of forces at work in the novel, enabling her to determine as precisely as possible the events, beliefs, values, and cultural assumptions that inform it. In her ample, well-furnished response to Forster's masterpiece, Judith Scherer Herz combines a political and historical reading with one focusing on narrative technique. It is a colonial as well as a postcolonial text, a participant in both the realist and modernist traditions. It accommodates the workings of reason and the supernatural, the sensibilities of West and East, the experiences of conqueror and subject. It is at once political tract, personal memoir, philosophical meditation, comedy of manners, mystery, even ghost story. Forster's fifth and last novel, A Passage to India, rests in part on its agility. ![]()
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