Kipling and Orientalism (Routledge Revivals)

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-138-79916-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 441 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1986, this book sets Kipling firmly in the historical context not only of contemporary India but of prior Anglo-Indian writers about India. Despite his enthusiastic reception in England as ‘revealer of the East’, in India he seems to have been regarded as just one more Anglo-Indian writer. The author demonstrates the traditionalism of Kipling’s use of the themes of Anglo-Indian fiction – themes such as the ‘White Man’s grave’, domestic instability, frustration and loneliness. In particular, Kipling is shown to be writing in a strongly conservative idiom, concentrating on the role of the British hierarchy as the determining factor in a response to India, on British insecurity and fears of a repeat of the 1857 mutiny, and regarding Indian institutions only in so far as they represented a threat to British rule. Conservative critiques of liberalism are also discussed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moore-Gilbert, B. J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Kipling’s Contexts2. Gorgeous East versus Land of Regrets3. A Sense of Insecurity4. Strategic Conflicts within Orientalism5. The Problem of Solidarity6. Orientalism and Narrative;Bibliography;Index

Über Autor(innen)

Moore-Gilbert, B. J.