Kipling and Beyond: Patriotism, Globalisation and Postcolonialism - Hardcover

by C. Rooney (Editor), K. Nagai (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

SHIRLEY CHEW, Emeritus Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures, University of Leeds, UK JO COLLINS, University of Kent, UK BEN GRANT, University of Kent, UK DONNA LANDRY, Professor of English and American Literature, University of Kent, UK KAORI NAGAI, Assistant Lecturer, University of Kent, UK BENITA PARRY, Emerita Professor, University of Warwick, UK JUDITH PLOTZ, Professor of English, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA CAROLINE ROONEY, Director of the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research, University of Kent, UK RASHNA BATLIWALA SINGH, Visiting Professor, Colorado College, USA HARISH TRIVEDI, Professor of English, University of Delhi, India CLAIRE WESTALL, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick University, UK