| dc.description.abstract | During the British Indian colonial period, many authors wrote about the
contact of the colonizer with the colonized. This dissertation examines some selected
colonial narratives of the Anglo-Indian writer Rudyard Kipling. It examines the
representation of the British and the Indian in relation to its historical context, using
concepts of “otherness”, “representation”, “power” and “subversion”. To reach
the purpose, we have applied Greenblatt’s theory of New-historicism. In the
discussion, we have studied the historical context of the selected short stories:
Lispeth, Beyond the Pale, Thrown Away, The Man who would be king, and the
Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, as well as the biography of the author in order to
understand the historical, cultural, political circumstances and the ideology of the
writer. We have attempted to put the texts of the selected short stories in the light of
some chosen historical documents in order to read the former in the light of the
latter. | en |
