Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Established Criticisms and Remaining Questions 11
1.1 Established Criticisms on Forster's A Passage to India 11
1.1.1 Criticism in the West 11
1.1.2 Criticism in China 23
1.2 Remaining Questions about A Passage to India 31
Chapter 2 Postmodern Narrative Theory 38
2.1 Reading as Discovery 38
2.2 Interpretation as Multiplicity 41
2.3 Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act 44
Chapter 3 Point of View and Politics 52
3.1 Multiple Points of View and Racial Politics 55
3.2 Variable Point of View and Gender Politics 65
3.3 External Point of View and Universalism 70
3.4 Internal Point of View and Liberal Humanism 74
Chapter 4 Space and Culture 81
4.1 The Mosque and Home of the Soul 84
4.2 The Civil Station and English Metropolitan Life 87
4.3 The Tennis Lawns and Racial Gap 90
4.4 The Maidan and Fellowship 92
4.5 Mr.Fielding's Living-Room and Anglo-Indian Utopia 93
4.6 Aziz's Bedroom and Brotherhood 95
4.7 The Caves and the Primitive Power 97
4.8 The Court and Nationalism 100
4.9 The Temple and the Secular God 102
Chapter 5 Narrative Structure and Religious Orientation 106
5.1 Femininity—Masculinity—Birth 108
5.2 Union—Dissolution—Union 115
5.3 Society—Solitude—Society 128
Chapter 6 Plot and Ethics 136
6.1 Loyalty 138
6.2 Responsibility 143
6.3 Love,Sex,and Marriage 150
Conclusion 153
Bibliography 159
Acknowledgements 172