KIPLING’S KIM: BETWEEN THE LAW OF THE EMPIRE AND THE LOVE FOR INDIA
KIPLING’S KIM: BETWEEN THE LAW OF THE EMPIRE AND THE LOVE FOR INDIA
Author(s): Nicoleta Aurelia MARCUSubject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Novel, Philology
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: hybridity; identity; law of the Empire; the Self; the Other;
Summary/Abstract: R.Kipling’s ‘Kim’ is a journey of self-revelation that seems to lead to a symbolic resolution of the ambivalences of a writer split by his belief in the Law of the Empire and his sympathies with the world of the Other. Kim, the main character of the homonymous novel, is placed between the two worlds and this renders him as a hybrid-like character whose anxiety is generated by his incapacity to accommodate the English and Indian spaces at once. Moments of hybridity can be identified at the level of the text, they are even developed to a certain point, only then to be disavowed and silenced, thus revealing the limits of the writer’s attempt to reconcile difference.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Petru Maior. Philologia
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 25
- Page Range: 144-149
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English