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Reading the Club as Colonial Island in E.M.Forsters' A Passage to India and George Orwell's Burmese Days

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posted on 2023-05-17, 08:23 authored by Ralph CraneRalph Crane
This paper examines the “island effect” in two enormously influential colonial fictions published in the final decades of the British Empire in India. Through a detailed analysis of the Club scene in Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) and Orwell’s pervasive use of the Kyauktada Club in Burmese Days (1934), this paper brings critical focus to the phenomenon of the Club in British India. It explores the way the Club functions as an ‘island’ microcosm within a larger framework of colonial isolation, and the way intimate colonial relations prevail within its walls and sustain an isolated community which fears for its survival outside its enclosing border.

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Publication title

Island Studies Journal

Volume

6

Pagination

17-28

ISSN

1715-2593

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island

Place of publication

Canada

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Copyright 2011 Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada

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