Narratives of Empire: The Fictions of Rudyard Kipling

by Zohreh T. Sullivan

Book Overview

Writers whose work reflects the experience of empire betray the anxieties and contradictions at the heart of the imperial enterprise. Zohreh T. Sullivan's 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521434254
• ISBN13: 9780521434256
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"