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Imperialist Discourse: Critical Limits of Liberalism in Selected Texts of Leonard Woolf and E.M. Forster

This dissertation traces imperialist ideology as it functions in the texts of two radical Liberal critics of imperialism, Leonard Woolf and E. M. Forster. In chapters two and three respectively, I read Woolf's autobiographical account Growing and his novel The Village in the Jungle to examine connections between "nonfictional" and "fictional" writing on colonialism. The autobiography's fictive texture compromises its claims to facticity and throws into relief the problematic nature of notions of truth and fact in colonialist epistemology and discursive systems.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc332756
Date12 1900
CreatorsDe Silva, Lilamani
ContributorsKobler, J. F. (Jasper Fred), 1928-
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 253 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, De Silva, Lilamani, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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