Featuring an internationally distinguished list of contributors, Kipling and Beyond reassesses Kipling's texts and their reception in order to explore new approaches in postcolonial studies. The collection asks why Kipling continues to be a significant cultural icon and what this legacy means in the context of today's Anglo-American globalization.
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; C.Rooney & K.Nagai Kipling's Unloved Race: The Retreat from Modernity; B.Parry How 'The White Man's Burden' Lost Its Scare-Quotes: Kipling and the New American Empire; J.Plotz Empire's Children; D.Landry & C.Rooney The Alterity of Terror: Reading Kipling's 'Uncanny' India; J.Collins Kipling's Other Burden: Counter-narrating Empire; R.B.Singh 'Arguing with the Himalayas'?: Edward Said on Rudyard Kipling; H.Trivedi Blindness and the Idea of the Artist in Rudyard Kipling's They and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost ; S.Chew What They Knew of Nation and Empire: Rudyard Kipling and C. L. R. James; C.Westall Ex-patriotism; B.Grant & K.Nagai Index