Kipling’s Imperial Boy: Adolescence and Cultural Hybridity

Randall, D.

Kipling's Imperial Boy opens by examining the significance of boyhood in the evolution of European modernity. Chapter one shows how closely the figure of the adolescent (the 'boy') is associated with questions of imperial expansion and consolidation. The chapters that follow take up Rudyard Kipling's fiction of the imperial boy, emphasizing the imaginative link between adolescence and cultural hybridity and offering detailed readings of The Jungle Book, Stalky & Co ., and Kim.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-10-11

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333761045

DOI: 10.1057/9780230287822

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 192