Narratives of empire : the fictions of Rudyard Kipling

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Label

Narratives of empire : the fictions of Rudyard Kipling

Title remainder

the fictions of Rudyard Kipling

Statement of responsibility

Zohreh T. Sullivan

Creator

• Sullivan, Zohreh T

Subject

• Colonies in literature
• Imperialism in literature
• Imperialisme
• India -- In literature
• Auteursrecht
• Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Letterkunde
• Literatuuronderzoek
• Political fiction, English -- History and criticism
• Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

Language

eng

Summary

Writers whose work reflects the experience of empire betray the anxieties and contradictions at the heart of the imperial enterprise. Zohreh T. Sullivan's new reading of Rudyard Kipling's writings about India expands our sense of colonial discourse and recovers the cultural context and recurring tropes in his early journalism and fiction, in Kim, and in his late autobiography. She charts the fragmentation of Kipling's position as child, as colonizer and as "poet of empire," finding in his representation of childhood's loss the site of repressed and disavowed desires and fears that resurface in later work. In using Kipling's troubled intimacy with empire as the link between history and narrative, Sullivan sees in Kipling's ambivalence his negotiation between the desire for union with his golden "best-beloved" India and the historic imperatives of separation from it

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

828/.809

Index

index present

LC call number

PR4858.I48

LC item number

S85 1993

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography