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It might appear modish to be writing on Kim and Orientalism so soon after the publication of a book on the subject of ‘Kipling and “Orientalism” ‘1 but this essay is in some respects born of a double dissatisfaction with that book: first, because although the author confines himself to Kipling’s Indian material, Kim receives very little consideration, and secondly, because in spite of the fact that the concept of Orientalism as elaborated by Edward Said2 does have its problems, Moore-Gilbert’s treatment of it is unnecessarily reductive.
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B. J. Moore-Gilbert, Kipling and ‘Orientalism’ (London, 1986).
See particularly Edward Said, Orientalism (London, 1978; reprt Penguin, 1985) and an article,
‘Orientalism Reconsidered’, in Europe and its Others, Proceedings of the Essex Conference on the Sociology of Literature, vol. 1, ed. Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iversen and Diane Loxley (University of Essex, Colchester, 1986) pp. 14–27.
Mark Kinkead-Weekes, ‘Vision in Kipling’s Novels’, in Kipling’s Mind and Art, ed. Andrew Rutherford (Edinburgh and London, 1964) pp. 233, 216.
John McClure, ‘Problematic Presence: the Colonial Other in Kipling and Conrad’, in The Black Presence in English Literature, ed. David Dabydeen (Manchester, 1985) pp. 154–67.
Abdul JanMohamed, ‘The Econony of Manichean Allegory: the Function of Racial Difference in Colonialist Literature’, Critical Inquiry, vol. 12 (Autumn 1985) p. 78.
Frederick Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead, F. E.: The Life of F. E. Smith, First Earl of Birkenhead (London, 1960) p. 506.
Pierre Macherey, A Theory of Literary Production (London, 1978).
Christine Bolt, ‘Race and the Victorians’, in C. C. Eldridge, British Imperialism in the 19th Century (London, 1984) p. 129.
Kipling, ‘One Viceroy Resigns’, in Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Definitive Edition (London, 1942) p. 69.
J. McClure, Kipling and Conrad: The Colonial Fiction (Cambridge, Mass., 1981) p. 71.
Curzon-Hamilton correspondence, quoted in K. Ballhatchet, Race, Sex and Class under the Raj (London, 1981) pp. 119–20.
On this, see V. G. Kiernan, The Lords of Humankind (London, 1969) ch. 1, and Bolt, ‘Race and the Victorians’.
Quoted in B. Porter, The Lion’s Share: A Short History of British Imperialism, 1850–1983 (London, 1984) p. 153.
See Ben Shepherd, ‘Showbiz Imperialism’, in Imperialism and Popular Culture, ed. J. MacKenzie (Manchester, 1986) pp. 94–112.
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Williams, P. (1989). Kim and Orientalism. In: Mallett, P. (eds) Kipling Considered. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20062-7_3
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