Moosavinia, Sayyed Rahim

Untold stories about India: Rudyard Kipling and E.M. Forster - New Delhi Sarup Book Publishers 2009 - 112p.

Untold stories about India: Rudyard Kipling and E.M. Forster could not have come more timely a the trend has shifted from theory domination to a new horizon of close reading and cultural studies. A brief history of Orientalism from the 18th through the 20th century commotes the shifting position of the Orient as romantic and exotic to a representational and inferior entity. This is a close post-Orientalism reading of two modern clasical texts in the form of a detailed examination and application of Saidian analysis. The author of the book believes that there is a host of novels on India by both Indian and non-Indian authors but Kipling's Kim and Forster's A passage to India play a significant role in the typical colonialist tradition of narration...

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Literature
English literature
English fiction
Kipling, Rudyard
A passage to India
Kim (Kipling, Rudyard)

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