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Starting from the analysis of the Irish characters in Kipling's Indian stories, this book shows that the representation of the British Empire was greatly indebted to analogies and comparisons made between colonies. It contrasts two different ways of making colonial analogies: 'imperialist' and 'nationalist'. Kipling, as a young journalist, was keenly aware of the fact that Indian and Irish nationalists drew analogies between each other's colonial situation to make the case for self-government and British misrule, and his repeated emphasis on Irish participation in the Raj can be seen as a powerful 'imperialist' counter-representation to these subversive analogies. With this framework in mind, this book traces how Kipling's representation of Empire changed over time as he moved away from India and also how the hegemony of British imperialism faltered toward the end of the nineteenth century. This book makes a major contribution to post-colonialism studies in general and to the comparative study of Ireland and India in particular.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 Chapter 1 The Taming of the Irish Afreets 14 Chapter 2 When East meets West: Kipling's India of Anti-gravity 28 Chapter 3 Exiled Home: the Voice of the Irish Soldiers 50 Chapter 4 Shamrocks in the Veldt: Two Types of Aphasic Empire 70 Chapter 5 Kim in South Africa 93 Chapter 6 The Dynamite War of Analogies 111 Conclusion 132 Notes 135 Bibliography 165 Index 177

About the Author :
Kaori Nagai lectures in the School of English at the University of Kent.

Review :
Nagai (Univ. of Kent, UK) contributes to the postcolonial debate between scholars who emphasize Irish contributions to British imperialism and those who insist on Irish nationalist resistance. Rudyard Kipling serves as a witness demonstrating the empire's effort to create a "family" of diverse colonized nations within its grand design. Foregrounding sociopolitical agendas in this manner ignores Kipling as a literary practitioner and magnifies his ideological message. Nagai concentrates on Kipling's Irish characters as they navigate between national and imperial identities. The book is divided into three (unequal) chronological parts: the 1880s when Kipling lived in India, the 1890s when he achieved international fame, and the Boer War years. Kipling's work in each period seems to be a palimpsest of the others, always reinforcing the conclusion that he tried to confine the explosive force (she calls it "dynamite") of Irish, Indian, and Boer nationalism within an irenic English empire, an "imperial dream life." Despite heavy-handed prose, Nagai's search for analogies produces dramatic moments (e.g., those surrounding Maude Gonne and Irish General Reginald Dyer). Her bibliography and notes demonstrate a thorough familiarity with Kipling's work and critical responses to it. Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers and faculty.--Choice


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  • ISBN-13: 9781859184080
  • Publisher: Cork University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cork University Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1859184081
  • Publisher Date: 17 Jan 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Kipling, India and Ireland


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