Rudyard Kipling's Fiction
Subtitle: Mapping Psychic Spaces
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780748698554
Subjects: Kipling, rudyard, 1865-1936; Feminist criticism; Psychoanalytic interpretation
Description: 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