Hegemony and Post Colonial Discourse: A Study of E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India

Pages:31-33
Ranveer Singh and Raj kumar (Department of English, M.D. University, Rohtak, Haryana and Department of English, K.U.K., Haryana)

Since the twentieth century there have been a large number of theories and concepts, proposing a large number of diverse and varied forms of literary interpretations. As it is often said that literature is the product of society in which it has been produced, similarly one can say that a critical theory is also a product of social conditions in which it is produced. So during the colonialization and after decolonization the theory of post colonialism developed under the social circumstances of the various European colonies or broadly speaking under the social super structure. The post colonial theory may be defined as “the critical analysis of history, cultural literature and modes of various discourses that are specific” to European colonizers (Abrams236). These studies have focused especially on the former colonies of the European nations in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean Island.