Oh heeeeeey, I'm from Bangladesh. What are the odds? (Pretty good, I guess, given the population size.) But still! *desi fistbump*
Your feelings about Forster is my feelings about Kipling. I hate him so much! And his work is even more conservative than Forster's is, i.e. the White Man's Burden, literally, etc, but yesh, yes, A Passage to India is definitely a work of failed liberalism. It's interesting as a historical piece, but a positive or accurate portrayal of India it is not. I wouldn't really expect that from Western creaters, not even now (I sometimes catch the terrible Indian Summers on TV and can't help hissing at the screen. Of course, Indian creators aren't exempt from Empire-nostalgia either, apparently -- I was so disappointed in Gurinder Chadra for making shit like The Viceroy's House, what crap.)
And ofc, male writers think the worst thing that can happen to a woman is rape OR ofc women would lie about that because they're harpies who want to bring a man down. *LOUD, LOUD SIGH*
I think Forster is probably best with a story that's closest to his own life - Maurice, tbh.
Akashi is the literally embodiment of the Kate Beaton Nemesis comic only instead of one portrait, he has five. Nemesises!!!
Hmmmmmm. Interesting. So he's what Kise seemed like in the first five minutes of his introduction, huh? Intereeeeeeesting.
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Your feelings about Forster is my feelings about Kipling. I hate him so much! And his work is even more conservative than Forster's is, i.e. the White Man's Burden, literally, etc, but yesh, yes, A Passage to India is definitely a work of failed liberalism. It's interesting as a historical piece, but a positive or accurate portrayal of India it is not. I wouldn't really expect that from Western creaters, not even now (I sometimes catch the terrible Indian Summers on TV and can't help hissing at the screen. Of course, Indian creators aren't exempt from Empire-nostalgia either, apparently -- I was so disappointed in Gurinder Chadra for making shit like The Viceroy's House, what crap.)
And ofc, male writers think the worst thing that can happen to a woman is rape OR ofc women would lie about that because they're harpies who want to bring a man down. *LOUD, LOUD SIGH*
I think Forster is probably best with a story that's closest to his own life - Maurice, tbh.
Akashi is the literally embodiment of the Kate Beaton Nemesis comic only instead of one portrait, he has five. Nemesises!!!
Hmmmmmm. Interesting. So he's what Kise seemed like in the first five minutes of his introduction, huh? Intereeeeeeesting.