“Queer Report”

Postcolonial readings of E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) typically treat the author’s representation of queer desire in the text as a “disappointed” homosexuality. This disappointment is rendered pernicious when viewed as complicit with structures of homosociality that, as many scholars have noted, ably buttressed imperialism (Lane 8–9). Rather than endorse such readings, however, A Passage to India disavows any notion of a legible homosexual identity, even in the form of a disappointed homosociality in the text.