Imperialismo e representações do Império em Kim, de Rudyard Kipling (original) (raw)

2017

Abstract

Kim, the novel by Rudyard Kipling originally published in 1901, is a fundamental object and starting point for the study of both the conceptions and representations of the Empire as manifestations of British Imperialism and of India as the elected space for its materialization, at the end of the nineteenth century, as well as the demonstration of the Kiplinguian concept of “ideal man”. Consequently, empire, imperialism, culture, race and identity constitute conceptual categories of analysis, from which the approach to the object of study is built, necessarily implying, as a consequence of the multiplicity of affiliations, the historical contextualization of the events or facts that determine or influence the reading of their respective meaning. Emphasis is put on Kipling’s unequivocal commitment to Imperialism and to the Empire, based on a strong missionary spirit and on the notion of service in favor of modernity and progress, i.e., the elevation of the civilizational pattern of humanity, questioning, at the same time, the determinism of culture, race, caste, religion or ethnicity in the construction of the identity of the individual.

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