Rudyard Kipling's fiction: mapping psychic spaces

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This study provides an entirely new reading of Kipling's fiction using the feminist psychoanalytic methodology of Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous, focusing particularly on ideas of the abjected maternal feminine. It examines Kipling's ambivalent relationship to the India of his childhood and the 'loss' of his mother figures. In doing so, it peels back the layers of masculine bravado that continues to characterize Kipling's fiction to reveal a valorized 'feminine' space.--Provided by publisher.

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Full title :Rudyard Kipling's fiction : mapping psychic spaces / Lizzy Welby.

Summary

This study provides an entirely new reading of Kipling's fiction using the feminist psychoanalytic methodology of Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous, focusing particularly on ideas of the abjected maternal feminine. It examines Kipling's ambivalent relationship to the India of his childhood and the 'loss' of his mother figures. In doing so, it peels back the layers of masculine bravado that continues to characterize Kipling's fiction to reveal a valorized 'feminine' space.--Provided by publisher.

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Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

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Description:vii, 246 pages ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780748698554, 0748698558
oclc:ocn893897375
LC Classification:PR4857
Dewey Decimal:823.8

Introduction: Two separate sides to his head -- Kipling's ambivalent India -- Paradise lost: Kipling's Southsea years -- Mastering the law-of-the-Father in the Jungle Book and Stalky & Co. -- Empire of contradictions: desire for the impossible Mother India in Kim -- The 'Sorrowful state of manhood': Kipling's adults in India -- The ascent from the abyss: Dedication to duty in The Day's Work -- Conclusion: This other Eden -- Puck of Pook's Hill, Rewards and Fairies.

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Critique féministe Feminismus Feminist criticism Interprétation psychanalytique Kipling, Rudyard Kritik Psychoanalyse Psychoanalytic Interpretation