POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE FOR CHILDRENEDU32PLC.pptVIP

POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE FOR CHILDRENEDU32PLC Lecture 4 From the Colonial to the Post-colonial: Rudyard Kipling and Kim Some references .au/childlit/Authors/Kipling.htm http://www.britishempire.co.uk/ Binaries The colonial context - Explorer/Discovery Civilized/Primitive Ruler/Ruled Parent/Child All based in the essence of: Superior/Inferior Breaking away from these mutual dependencies is the beginning of post-colonialism Rudyard Kipling b. 1865 Bombay, India, d. 1936 London UK Father a teacher in the Indian Service Kipling brought up by an ayah - Hindustani as 1st language 1871 fami