Kipling's imperial boy Adolescence and cultural hybridity /
'Don Randall's 'Kipling's Imperial Boy' is an important contribution to Kipling studies and to the area of colonial discourse analysis more generally. Historically sensitive and theoretically aware, it provides a persuasive and original mapping of theories of cultural hybrid...
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Language: | English |
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'Don Randall's 'Kipling's Imperial Boy' is an important contribution to Kipling studies and to the area of colonial discourse analysis more generally. Historically sensitive and theoretically aware, it provides a persuasive and original mapping of theories of cultural hybridity onto discourses of adolescence - and vice versa. In a series of close readings of 'The Jungle Books', 'Stalky and Co' and 'Kim', Randall ably demonstrates that Kipling's imperial boys are liminal figures who both subvert and reinforce the borders between cultures and who both counter and confirm the masculinism of col |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780333761045, 2000. |
Carrier Form: | 200 p. |
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9780333761045 9780230287822 : 0230287824 : |
CLC: | I561.074 |
Contents: | Introduction The Genealogy of the Imperial Boy The Jungle Books: Post-Mutiny Allegories of Empire Stalky & Co.: Resituating the Empire and the Imperial Boy Kim: Disciplinary Power and Cultural Hybridity Kim: Ethnography and the Hybrid Boy Conclusion Endnotes Works Cited Index. |