http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2018(III-I).07
10.31703/glr.2018(III-I).07
Published : Mar 2018
Postcolonial perspective in No Longer at Ease and A Passage to India
Postcolonialism with its various aspects is focused in this paper. The present study highlights the key postcolonial issues in Chinua Achebe’s novel No Longer at Ease and E. M. Forster’s novel A Passage to India. While keeping in view length of the chapters, only the first chapter of No Longer at Ease and the first three chapters of A Passage to India have been analyzed and discussed. The postcolonial issues found in these novels are ambivalence, stereotyping, mimicry, hybridity, representation, orality, binarism and marginalization. Almost both of the novels got these issues in some proportion with different contexts but still with many similarities.
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Postcolonialism, Chinua Achebe, E. M. Forster, ambivalence, stereotyping, mimicry, hybridity, representation, orality
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(1) Liaqat Iqbal
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Irfan Ullah
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Abdur Rehman
Lecturer, Fauji Foundation Education System, Nowshera, KP, Pakistan.
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APA : Iqbal, L., Ullah, I., & Rehman, A. (2018). Postcolonial perspective in No Longer at Ease and A Passage to India. Global Language Review, III(I), 114-125. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2018(III-I).07
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CHICAGO : Iqbal, Liaqat, Irfan Ullah, and Abdur Rehman. 2018. "Postcolonial perspective in No Longer at Ease and A Passage to India." Global Language Review, III (I): 114-125 doi: 10.31703/glr.2018(III-I).07
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HARVARD : IQBAL, L., ULLAH, I. & REHMAN, A. 2018. Postcolonial perspective in No Longer at Ease and A Passage to India. Global Language Review, III, 114-125.
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MHRA : Iqbal, Liaqat, Irfan Ullah, and Abdur Rehman. 2018. "Postcolonial perspective in No Longer at Ease and A Passage to India." Global Language Review, III: 114-125
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MLA : Iqbal, Liaqat, Irfan Ullah, and Abdur Rehman. "Postcolonial perspective in No Longer at Ease and A Passage to India." Global Language Review, III.I (2018): 114-125 Print.
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OXFORD : Iqbal, Liaqat, Ullah, Irfan, and Rehman, Abdur (2018), "Postcolonial perspective in No Longer at Ease and A Passage to India", Global Language Review, III (I), 114-125
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TURABIAN : Iqbal, Liaqat, Irfan Ullah, and Abdur Rehman. "Postcolonial perspective in No Longer at Ease and A Passage to India." Global Language Review III, no. I (2018): 114-125. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2018(III-I).07