The impossibility of the spatial dichotomy in colonial narratives : an analysis of the representation and significance of space in E.M. Forster’s a passage to India and J.M. Coetzee’s waiting for the barbarians

• Main Author: Luo, Priscilla Peiyu
• Other Authors: Bede Tregear Scott
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Language::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62732
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

One conspicuous and fundamental distinction is the colonizer versus colonized binary opposition. As such, colonial narratives tend to partition space into two separate halves: the space of the colonizer and the space of the colonized. The former is typically a classification of spaces that are charg...