Kipling and Beyond

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Caroline Rooney, Kaori Nagai

   Pages 1-17

3. Kipling’s Unloved Race: the Retreat from Modernity

   • Benita Parry

   Pages 18-36

4. How ‘The White Man’s Burden’ Lost its Scare-Quotes; or Kipling and the New American Empire

   • Judith Plotz

   Pages 37-57

5. Empire’s Children

   • Donna Landry, Caroline Rooney

   Pages 58-78

6. The Alterity of Terror: Reading Kipling’s ‘Uncanny’ India

   • Jo Collins

   Pages 79-100

7. Kipling’s Other Burden: Counter-Narrating Empire

   • Rashna B. Singh

   Pages 101-119

8. ‘Arguing with the Himalayas’? Edward Said on Rudyard Kipling

   • Harish Trivedi

   Pages 120-143

9. ‘Blindness’ and the Idea of the Artist in Rudyard Kipling’s ‘“They”’ and Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost

   • Shirley Chew

   Pages 144-164

10. What They Knew of Nation and Empire: Rudyard Kipling and C. L. R. James

    • Claire Westall

    Pages 165-184

11. Ex-patriotism

    • Ben Grant, Kaori Nagai

    Pages 185-204

12. Back Matter

    Pages 205-214

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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.

• colonial studies
• colonialism
• globalization
• Postcolonial Studies
• Rudyard Kipling
• British and Irish Literature

'Not only does this excellent collection offer much to those interested in Kipling, it will reward the attention of all who approach the texts of the past using postcolonial perspectives...From Rooney and Nagai's deeply considered introduction to the final pages, this is a highly stimulating and sophisticated volume.' - Howard J. Booth, Journal of Postcolonial Writing

' 'Why Kipling today?' is the question that the editors of Kipling and Beyond ask, the answer to which is persuasively and meticulously explored in this most excellent collection of essays by an internationally eminent field of scholars....In conclusion, the essays in this volume offer throughtful and nuanced readings of Kipling's texts and make a compelling case for why we must continue to celebrate and learn from Kipling in the twenty-first century' - Supriya Goswami, Wasafiri

• University of Kent, UK

  Caroline Rooney, Kaori Nagai

SHIRLEY CHEW, Emeritus Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures, University of Leeds, UK JO COLLINS, University of Kent, UK BEN GRANT, University of Kent, UK DONNA LANDRY, Professor of English and American Literature, University of Kent, UK KAORI NAGAI, Assistant Lecturer, University of Kent, UK BENITA PARRY, Emerita Professor, University of Warwick, UK JUDITH PLOTZ, Professor of English, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA CAROLINE ROONEY, Director of the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research, University of Kent, UK RASHNA BATLIWALA SINGH, Visiting Professor, Colorado College, USA HARISH TRIVEDI, Professor of English, University of Delhi, India CLAIRE WESTALL, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick University, UK

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