Narratives of Empire - The Fictions of Rudyard Kipling (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 1993
First published:	1993
Authors:	Zohreh T. Sullivan
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-43425-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-43425-4
Barcode:	9780521434256

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