Compromise and Resistance in Postcolonial Writing

Acknowledgements Introduction – Liberal, Humanist, Modernist, Queer? Reclaiming Forster's Legacies 1. 'He is One of Your Hollow Men': Homosexuality and Sublimation in Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust 2. Shattered Realities, Torn Nations: (Post)Modernism in J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur and Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day 3. Of 'Planetary strangers': Humanism in Nadine Gordimer's The Lying Days and Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient 4. The Politics of Friendship and Hospitality: Liberalism in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh and in Zadie Smith's On Beauty Conclusion: Towards a Cosmopolitan Humanism Bibliography