Rudyard Kipling's fiction: mapping psychic spaces
by Welby, Lizzy
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. From readings of the 18…
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- Full title :Rudyard Kipling's fiction : mapping psychic spaces / Lizzy Welby.
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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. From readings of the 1888 story 'Baa Baa, Black Sheep' through The Jungle Book and Stalky & Co., Kim, The Day's Work, Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies, Lizzy Welby demonstrates that Kipling created ways of rediscovering a symbolised feminine landscape as a restorative space, which was part of his 'psychic mapping'.
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
- Place of Publication:Edinburgh
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
Notes
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The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (1 recurso electrónico (vii, 246 p.)).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780748698561, 0748698566
- oclc:on1198272823
- Dewey Decimal:823.8
Table of Contents
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.
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