Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature by unknow
Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Philosophy, Politics, Imperialism, Nationalism, Colonialism, Marxism
ISBN: 9780816618637
Google: MFv0ngEACAAJ
Amazon: 0816618631
Goodreads: 188797
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 1988-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
But what we must now add, and what now returns us to our starting pint, is that London is very precisely that âinfinityâ of which we caught a glimpse on the Great North Road, or at least a âcaricatureâ of it (Forsterâs word, p. 280). But now suddenly a whole set of terms falls into place and begins to coincide: cosmopolitanism, London, the nomadic, the stench of motorcars, antibilious pills, all begin to coalesce as a single historical tendency, and they are unexpectedly at one with âinfinityâ itself, which equally unexpectedly becomes the bad opposite of place, of Howards End, of the salvation through the here and the now (and incidentally of the regeneration of some older England that never existed, the utopian England of chapter XIX). But this is not simple romantic antiurban or antimodern nostalgia; it is not at all the conservative revulsion before the faceless industrial masses of the Waste Land, the modern urban world. And that for a final decisive reason, a final identification in this linked chain of phenomena: for infinity in this sense, this new grey placelessness, as well as what prepares it, also bears another familiar name. It is in Forster imperialism, or Empire, to give it its period designation. It is Empire which stretches the roads out to infinity, beyond the bounds and borders of the national state, Empire which leaves London behind it as a new kind of spatial agglomeration or disease, and whose commercialism now throws up those practical and public beings, like Mr. Wilcox, around whose repression of the personal Forsterâs message will also play, taking on new forms we have no time to examine here:In the motorcar was another type whom Nature favorsâthe Imperial. Healthy, ever in motion, it hopes to inherit the earth. It breads as quickly as the yeoman, and as soundly; strong is the temptation to acclaim it as a super-yeoman, who carries his countryâs virtue overseas. But the Imperialist is not what he thinks or seems. He is a destroyer. He prepares the way for cosmopolitanism, and though his ambitions may be fulfilled, the earth that he inherits will be grey. (323)
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