Abstract
Makale Rudyard Kipling’in Kim romanında yer alan karşılıklı kültürel önyargılardan yola çıkarak, sömürge sonrası dönemin yazarlarında görülen kararsızlığa ambivalans benzer bir tutumun Kipling’de de görüldüğünü, Kipling’in dönemin kolonyal yazarlarından farkı bir bakış açısıyla yazdığını, bu nedenle sömürge dönemi yazarları arasında kategorise edilmesinin güç olduğunu savunmaktadır. Makale aynı zamanda, romanda Kim’in yalnızca ırksal bir melez olmadığını, aynı zamanda kültürel bir melezlik taşıdığını, Kim’in kullandığı melez dilden ve yazarın hem Urduca hem de İngilizce kullanımından örnekler vererek tartışmaktadır.
Keywords
Melezlik Sömürgecilik Emperyalizm Kararsızlık (Ambivalans) Bağımsızlık Sömürge Sonrası Yazın Kimlik
References
- GORRA, Michael. (1994). “Rudyard Kipling to Salman Rushdie: Imperialism to Postcolonialism”. in Richetti, John (ed.); Bender, John; Dierdre, David; Seidel, Michael (ass.eds.). The Columbia History of the British Novel. Columbia University Press.
- HOLDEN, Philip. (October 1997). “Halls of Mirrors: Mimicry and Ambivalence in Kipling’s Boer War Short Stories”. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. 28:(4), 91-109.
- HUBEL, Teresa. (January 1990). “The Bride of His Country: Love, Marriage, and the Imperialist Paradox in the Indian Fiction of Sara Jeannette Duncan and Rudyard Kipling”. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. 21:(1), 3-19.
- KIPLING, Rudyard. (1987). Kim. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
- RANDALL, Don. (July 1996). “Ethnography and the Hybrid Boy in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim”. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. 27:(3), 79-104.
- SAID, Edward. (1987). Introduction, in Rudyard Kipling, Kim. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
- SULERI, Sara. (1999). ‘From “The Adolescence of Kim”’ in Peter Childs (ed.) Post-Colonial Theory and English Literature: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- VIOLA, Andre. (April 1997). “Empire of Sense or a Sense of Empire? The Imaginary and the Symbolic in Kipling’s Kim”. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. 28:(2), 159-172.
Abstract
The article argues that the mutual prejudices in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim are also observed in the post-colonial writers’ novels, and exhibits the same ambivalence as the post-colonial writers do. Therefore, it is argued that Kipling wrote with a different perspective and, therefore, can hardly be categorised among the colonial writers of his age. The article argues, at the same time, that Kim is not only racially hybrid, but also culturally hybrid, by examples of the use of hybrid language and the use of both Urdu and English in the narrative.
Keywords
Hybridity Colonialism Imperialism Ambivalence Independence Post-Colonial Literature Identity
References
- GORRA, Michael. (1994). “Rudyard Kipling to Salman Rushdie: Imperialism to Postcolonialism”. in Richetti, John (ed.); Bender, John; Dierdre, David; Seidel, Michael (ass.eds.). The Columbia History of the British Novel. Columbia University Press.
- HOLDEN, Philip. (October 1997). “Halls of Mirrors: Mimicry and Ambivalence in Kipling’s Boer War Short Stories”. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. 28:(4), 91-109.
- HUBEL, Teresa. (January 1990). “The Bride of His Country: Love, Marriage, and the Imperialist Paradox in the Indian Fiction of Sara Jeannette Duncan and Rudyard Kipling”. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. 21:(1), 3-19.
- KIPLING, Rudyard. (1987). Kim. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
- RANDALL, Don. (July 1996). “Ethnography and the Hybrid Boy in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim”. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. 27:(3), 79-104.
- SAID, Edward. (1987). Introduction, in Rudyard Kipling, Kim. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
- SULERI, Sara. (1999). ‘From “The Adolescence of Kim”’ in Peter Childs (ed.) Post-Colonial Theory and English Literature: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- VIOLA, Andre. (April 1997). “Empire of Sense or a Sense of Empire? The Imaginary and the Symbolic in Kipling’s Kim”. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. 28:(2), 159-172.
Details
| Primary Language | English |
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| Journal Section | Research Article |
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| Publication Date | January 1, 2004 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2004 Volume: 44 Issue: 2 |
Ankara University Journal of the Faculty of Languages and History-Geography
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