Missionary Positions
Reading the Bible in Forster's “The Life to Come
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3632095 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory W Bredbeck (University of California, Riverside, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 139-161 |
| Publication date | 1997-08-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1300/j082v33n03_07 |
| PMID | 9378936 |
| OpenAlex | W2045540241 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
E. M. Forster's short story "The Life to Come" intersects the concerns of both his colonial fiction (A Passage to India) and his homosexual fiction (Maurice). The confrontation in the story between a native chief and a missionary serves initially to explore the differences between permissive and prohibitional readings of the Bible, which reflects Forster's dislike of restrictive English morals. However, contextualizing the story within the project of translating Vedic scripture that attended British imperialism near the turn of the century demonstrates that Forster, like his contemporary and mentor Edward Carpenter, found within colonialism access to a mode of thinking that ultimately questioned the validity of either permission or prohibition as foundations for political argumentation
Argumentation theory · Art · Colonialism · Epistemology · Literature · Permissive · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2017 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |