Colonization as entropic decline in Mohsin Hamid's “Moth Smoke” and E. M. Forster's “A Passage to In...

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" Colonization as entropic decline in Mohsin Hamid's “Moth Smoke” and E. M. Forster's “A Passage to India” "
Cassandra E. Shaffer C. Kingsbury

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	54574
Doc. No	:	TL24528
Call number	:	‭1443912‬
Main Entry	:	Cassandra E. Shaffer
Title & Author	:	Colonization as entropic decline in Mohsin Hamid's “Moth Smoke” and E. M. Forster's “A Passage to India”\ Cassandra E. Shaffer
College	:	University of Central Missouri
Date	:	2007
Degree	:	M.A.
student score	:	2007
Page No	:	32
Abstract	:	Entropy, a feature of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, is a complex scientific value that measures the amount of energy lost in a macrostate. The lost energy is useless and causes the decline and inevitable destruction of the system. In terms of literature, entropy retains its scientific definition and also acquires a social significance. In this thesis, I will argue that the nature of colonization creates entropy in the colony among the macrostate, the area or country that is colonized, and the microstates, the native individuals of the colonized area. I will specifically focus on Mohsin Hamid's Moth Smoke and E.M. Forster's A Passage to India as examples of entropic decline in colonies as they are represented in postcolonial literature.
Subject	:	Language, literature and linguistics; Pakistan; Comparative literature; Literature; Asian literature; British and Irish literature; 0593:British and Irish literature; 0305:Asian literature; 0298:Literature; 0295:Comparative literature
Added Entry	:	C. Kingsbury
Added Entry	:	University of Central Missouri