CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dialectic
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A passage to india an earliest novel for him to work on but published latest in his lifetime 1994 dedi(cid:272)ated to (cid:862)(cid:373)asood(cid:863) Forester had a colonialist view of india, but through patience, masood changed that view or insight. Aziz is the person who tells us the truth about india. Novel expands european consciousness about others through giving an identity to an indian perso(cid:374) as opposed to (cid:862)the afri(cid:272)a(cid:374)s(cid:863) ge(cid:374)eralizatio(cid:374) i(cid:374) heart of dark(cid:374)ess. Idea that aziz will do for the reader what masood did for forester, to change us and to be our sympathetic anchor: he has feelings, showing a willingness to understand him (?) In this way the novel avoids being didact; avoids telling us what to think about colonialism, but leads us there: british (cid:272)hara(cid:272)ters are (cid:374)ot portra(cid:455)ed as (cid:448)illlai(cid:374)s; (cid:449)hile (cid:449)e see (cid:449)here our allia(cid:374)(cid:272)e lies, .
