A Study Of The Resistance Of The Colonized In The Cultrual Conflicts In A Passage To India By E.M.Forster

Since it was published in 1924,A Passage to India has received widespread attention.Over the years,scholars and critics have explored this novel from many different literary perspectives.With the development of postcolonial theory,scholars have discussed the novel with this new approach.Based on the postcolonial theories of Homi Bhabha,this paper will use Hybridity to explore the cultural conflicts in A Passage to India from many different aspects.In addition,it will also analyse how the colonized resist and revolt to the colonial culture in Anglo-Indian society.This paper reveals the influence of British government's colonial control and cultural hegemony on India.Living in the Anglo-Indian society for a long time,Indians were forced to receive the British culture.Gradually,they began to blindly imitate the British culture,which led to the appearance of the Hybridity in India at that time.This phenomenon resulted in the cultural conflicts between the Indians and the British and also weakened Indians' cultural cohesion.Besides,through connecting with British,some Indians started to awake and noticed that they were not different from the British colonizers and they had the right to be equal with the British instead of being subordinates.They could be the owner of their own country.Then,Muslims and Hindus united together to resist and revolt to the colonial culture.They fought for their discourse,striving for the freedom and the liberation even though their abilities were limited.To sum up,based on Hybridity,the purpose of this study is to emphasize the importance of cultural cognition.It also encourages the colonized to insist on their own cultural identities and to strengthen their own national cultural cognition,promoting national cultural cohesion in order to achieve national independence.