Racial tension and cultural misunderstanding in a passage To India Novel

Alfaini, Sana (2023) Racial tension and cultural misunderstanding in a passage To India Novel. Sarjana thesis, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati.

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Abstract

The study that follows is based on the novel A Passage to India by E.M. Forster and the purpose of this study is to demonstrate racial tension and cultural differences between the British Colonizers and the Indian Colonized, (synonymous in this discussion with the terms ‘the West’ and ‘the East’, respectively). The second purpose of this study is to show how distance necessitates the reliance upon stereotypes as a means of understanding people and places in the novel. Method for conducting the study is based on interpretation of the novel and supported by the theoretical perspectives presented in Narrative theory and Postcolonial theory, based from understanding of how these theoretical perspectives fit into the plot of the text that serves as the starting point for this discussion. researcher have examined A Passage to India within its cultural, political, social, and historical context, while performing a close reading, and subsequent close interpretation, of the primary text. The research is base from analysis on direct quotations from A Passage to India to support the claims.

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