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Generalisations of Kipling's attitude to the Indian Other,
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This review is from: Narratives of Empire: The Fictions of Rudyard Kipling (Hardcover)
Sullivan attempts to alingn post-colonial theory (in the sense of the treatment of the Other in Kipling's works) with that of victorian race sensibilities and Kipling's childhood.Although the two obviously have many concepts in common-the idea of India itself as a helpless fledgling society-they are essentially concepts applied in a theoretical sense rather than that of a factual understanding of Kipling's work.Sullivan uses a method of personal autobiography to explain theories developped years after his death.This may be a way to explicate Kipling and his colonialism,but does not bear up to close scrutiny when we discuss a number of texts by kipling and other authors.Sullivan's work is an excellent introduction to colonial theory and kipling but one that is floored in its assumptions about the writer from biographical 'evidence'.Matt Gordon elp010@bangor.ac.uk |
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Narratives of Empire: The Fictions of Rudyard Kipling by Zohreh T. Sullivan (Hardcover - May 28, 1993)
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