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T1 Female Anxiety in Colonial and Post-Colonial British Fiction
A1 Faura i Sabé, Salvador
AB In this article, Freud’s theory of neurosis is used to analyze theactions of E.M. Forster’s female character in A Passage to India (1924)as well as those of Sunetra Gupta’s protagonist in Memories of Rain(1992). To begin with, this text demonstrates that Adela was marginalizedby the ideological apparatus of empire thanks to the circulation of themyth of the black superpenis. In fact, this article was written to suggestthat many white women who lived in the periphery were psychologicallyoppressed by Western patriarchal norms until the myth dealt withhere was challenged by modernism. That is the reason why postcolonialnovels such as Memories of Rain cannot be understood without a wideknowledge of the tradition they “attack”. As I see it, Gupta’s text doesnot only reverse A Passage to India. This novel is a proof that the legendof the interracial violator has been recently transferred to racialminorities.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
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RD 27-nov-2024