References for today’s lecture and discussion:

British Raj, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/independence1947_01.shtml

Frantz Fanon, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayatri_Chakravorty_Spivak

Subaltern, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaltern_(postcolonialism)

Mahatma Ghandi, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi

Reading schedule for the remainder of A Passage to India:

• 10/24, chapters 4-7
• 10/26, chapters 8-13
• 10/31, chapters 14-19
• 11/2, chapters 20-25
• 11/7, chapters 26-31
• 11/9, chapters 32-37 (last day of discussion before moving to Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother)

Today’s goals:

• Share your response to the first three chapters of A Passage to India
• Find out about E. M. Forster
• Learn about Liberal Humanism, the Victorian Era, and Edwardian Era
• Contextualize Forster’s A Passage to India in regard to some of his other works
• Establish the historical and political frame of reference for A Passage to India

Visual Notes:

EM Forster
E.M+Forster,+pensive.jpg

Isaac Asimov
http://just.thinkofit.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/isaac-asimov.jpg

Queen Victoria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria#/media/File:Queen_Victoria_by_Bassano.jpg

King Edward VII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VII#/media/File:Edward_VII_in_coronation_robes.jpg

Downton Abbey
http://d2buyft38glmwk.cloudfront.net/new-stacks/media/images/canonical/mast-da-s6-icon-hires.jpg

Virginia Woolf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:George_Charles_Beresford_-_Virginia_Woolf_in_1902_-_Restoration.jpg

Billy Budd, Opera
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/10/arts/music/brittens-billy-budd-from-glyndebourne-to-bam.html

Forster, “The Machine Stops,” BBC Adaptation
http://www.emforster.info/images/Machine_Stops_TV_01.jpg

Forster, A Room with a View, Film Adaptation
http://kentfilmoffice.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/A-Room-with-a-View-movieposterdb.jpg

Forster, Howards End, Film Adaptation
https://i.jeded.com/i/howards-end.24698.jpg

“Only Connect” Memorial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster#/media/File:Monument_to_E._M._Forster.jpg

Zadie Smith, On Beauty
https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/article-1298633950414-0d5872aa000005dc-54356_568x418.jpg?quality=80&strip=all

Forster, Maurice
https://cdn.penguin.com.au/covers/1440/9780141441139.jpg

Alan Turing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#/media/File:Alan_Turing_Aged_16.jpg

Forster, A Passage to India
https://www.penguin.co.uk/content/dam/catalogue/pim/editions/451/9780141441160/cover.jpg

British Holdings after World War I, “The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire”
http://www.britishempire.co.uk/images4/interwarsmaplarge.jpg

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Trip to the Land of Ghandi
http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_kings_trip_to_india/