The Buddhist sub-text and the imperial soul-making in Kim.(Critical essay)

From: Victorian Newsletter | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

I. 'Lama, lama, my dear sir; and some of them are gentlemen in their own country': Rereading the lama as an unsettling foreign guest in the empire's house of fiction

In his introduction to Psychoanalysis of Race, Christopher Lane succinctly observes the central conundrum of Kim by noting that "scholars of Rudyard Kipling's work may recall his notorious pronouncements on the impossibility of "White" and "Black" living together in harmony, but they find it difficult to assess why Kipling's Kim (1901) strangely vacillates between disbanding and reinvoking racial hierarchies" ...

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