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Kipling and Beyond : Patriotism, Globalisation and Postcolonialism / edited by C. Rooney, K. Nagai.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Rooney, Caroline.
Nagai, Kaori.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Literature, Modern--20th century.
Literature, Modern.
Literature.
European literature.
Literature, Modern--19th century.
Literature--Philosophy.
Culture--Study and teaching.
Culture.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
World Literature.
European Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Local Subjects:
Twentieth-Century Literature.
World Literature.
European Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (225 p.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2010.
Place of Publication:
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Featuring an internationally distinguished list of contributors, Kipling and Beyond reassesses Kipling's texts and their reception in order to explore new approaches in postcolonial studies. The collection asks why Kipling continues to be a significant cultural icon and what this legacy means in the context of today's Anglo-American globalization.
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Kipling's Unloved Race: the Retreat from Modernity; 2 How 'The White Man's Burden' Lost its Scare-Quotes; or Kipling and the New American Empire; 3 Empire's Children; 4 The Alterity of Terror: Reading Kipling's 'Uncanny' India; 5 Kipling's Other Burden: Counter-Narrating Empire; 6 'Arguing with the Himalayas'? Edward Said on Rudyard Kipling; 7 'Blindness' and the Idea of the Artist in Rudyard Kipling's '"They"' and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost
8 What They Knew of Nation and Empire: Rudyard Kipling and C. L. R. James9 Ex-patriotism; Select Bibliography; Index
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786612997617
9781282997615
1282997610
9780230290471
0230290477
OCLC:
696313955

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