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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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Main Authors: Randall, Don
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Kipling, Rudyard, > 1865-1936. > Criticism and interpretation
Kipling, Rudyard, > 1865-1936. > Views on imperialism
Kipling, Rudyard, > 1865-1936. > Characters > Boys
Adolescence in literature
Imperialism in literature
Political fiction, English > History and criticism
Multiculturalism in literature
Colonies in literature
Boys in literature
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers > English
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 > English
Literature
India > In literature
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230287822
Summary: '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
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780333761045, 2000.
Carrier Form: 200 p.
ISBN: 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.

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