Imperial Subjects, Imperial Space: Rudyard Kipling's Fiction of the Native-bornOhio State University Press, 2002 - 224 sider Why was Rudyard Kipling so drawn in his fiction to the figure of the foreign-born Briton--what Kipling called the "native-born"? The answer lies in McBratney's "Imperial Subjects, Imperial Space, the first full-length study of a figure central to Kipling's major imperial fiction: the "native-born." In these narratives Kipling sees the native-born fulfilling two important roles: model imperial servant and ideal imperial citizen. The special abilities that allow the native-born to play these roles derive from his identity as neither exclusively British nor simply "native." This study also provides the most thorough analysis of that figure's hybrid, "casteless" selfhood in relation to shifting attitudes toward racial identity during Britain's "New Imperialism." In its endeavor to place the liminal subject within a particular moment in British discourses about race and nation, this book illuminates both the complexities of subject construction in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods and the struggles today over identity formation in the postcolonial world. |
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... writers claim , imperial discourse is always already riven by ambiguity , then that writing amounts predictably to a long series of iterated moments of aporia , in which the colonist's splendid isolation from the " native " is ...
... writers claim , imperial discourse is always already riven by ambiguity , then that writing amounts predictably to a long series of iterated moments of aporia , in which the colonist's splendid isolation from the " native " is ...
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... writer to assess his peculiar role in writing the British nation at the turn of the century . Chapter 2 places his writings within the late nineteenth - century discourses of race and nation . Chapter 3 defines the type of the white ...
... writer to assess his peculiar role in writing the British nation at the turn of the century . Chapter 2 places his writings within the late nineteenth - century discourses of race and nation . Chapter 3 defines the type of the white ...
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... writing to win acclaim among a metropolitan audience eager for new and alien voic- es ; yet the strangeness of his voice was a continual cipher to this reader- ship . This double bind hampered Kipling whenever he wished to articulate ...
... writing to win acclaim among a metropolitan audience eager for new and alien voic- es ; yet the strangeness of his voice was a continual cipher to this reader- ship . This double bind hampered Kipling whenever he wished to articulate ...
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The Writer as NativeBorn | 1 |
Kipling and the Discourses of Race and Nation | 12 |
Early Versions of the NativeBorn | 32 |
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