TY - BOOK AU - Moosavinia, Sayyed Rahim TI - Untold stories about India: Rudyard Kipling and E.M. Forster SN - 9788176259095 U1 - 823.8 PY - 2009/// CY - New Delhi PB - Sarup Book Publishers KW - Literature KW - English literature KW - English fiction KW - Kipling, Rudyard KW - A passage to India KW - Kim (Kipling, Rudyard) N2 - 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... ER -