خوانش پسااستعماری-فمینیستی رمان سفری به هند، اثر ای. ام. فورستر

postcolonial feminism, also dubbed as third world feminism, is an innovative approach, demonstrating the way women of colonized countries suffer from both native patriarchies and imperial ideology. also due to this double-colonization, postcolonial feminists contend that third world women are subjected to both colonial domination of empire and male domination of patriarchy. while western feminism focuses on gender discrimination, postcolonial feminism works to extend the analysis of intersection of gender and multicultural identity formation. the present thesis is written based on the conviction that e. m forsters a passage to india (1924) possesses the quality to be interpreted from the postcolonial feminism vantage point. this novel is the account of two british women who question the standard behaviors of the english toward the indians and suffer permanently from unsettling experience in india. the female victim in this novel is not a third-world black woman as usual, but a white british woman who fails in her quest to see the real india. after bringing a short introduction in the first chapter, the second chapter of this thesis provides a definition of postcolonial studies generally, and then postcolonial feminism specifically. here we are going to get familiar with this new approach, its concerns, and opinion of some of its most prominent critics. in the third chapter, a detailed reading of a passage to india is presented. the postcolonial feminism approach is applied to the novel in this chapter, and it can be visualized that how much the western feminism is inattentive to the differences pertaining to class, race, feelings, and settings of women of colonized territories. by depicting the limited worldview of the two british women, the thesis concludes that the privilege attributed to them is the western feminist prejudice and a one- dimensional view.