Introduction

Chapter 1　Established Criticisms and Remaining Questions

1.1　Established Criticisms on Forster's A Passage to India

1.1.1　Criticism in the West

1.1.2　Criticism in China

1.2　Remaining Questions about A Passage to India

Chapter 2　Postmodern Narrative Theory

2.1　Reading as Discovery

2.2　Interpretation as Multiplicity

2.3　Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

Chapter 3　Point of View and Politics

3.1　Multiple Points of View and Racial Politics

3.2　Variable Point of View and Gender Politics

3.3　External Point of View and Universalism

3.4　Internal Point of View and Liberal Humanism

Chapter 4　Space and Culture

4.1　The Mosque and Home of the Soul

4.2　The Civil Station and English Metropolitan Life

4.3　The Tennis Lawns and Racial Gap

4.4　The Maidan and Fellowship

4.5　Mr.Fielding's Living-Room and Anglo-Indian Utopia

4.6　Aziz's Bedroom and Brotherhood

4.7　The Caves and the Primitive Power

4.8　The Court and Nationalism

4.9　The Temple and the Secular God

Chapter 5　Narrative Structure and Religious Orientation

5.1　Femininity—Masculinity—Birth

5.2　Union—Dissolution—Union

5.3　Society—Solitude—Society

Chapter 6　Plot and Ethics

6.1　Loyalty

6.2　Responsibility

6.3　Love,Sex,and Marriage

Conclusion

Bibliography

Acknowledgements