"A Very Entertaining Book": The Ventriloquism of Rudyard Kipling's The Eyes of Asia

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/2571452X.2021.61.6" target="_blank" >10.14712/2571452X.2021.61.6</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

"A Very Entertaining Book": The Ventriloquism of Rudyard Kipling's The Eyes of Asia

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This article is a critical comparison between the text of letters written by Indian soldiers on the Western Front of World War I, and the text of Rudyard Kipling&apos;s The Eyes of Asia. The deployment of Indian soldiers by the British Empire to the Western Front produced controversy, anxiety, and excitement among European observers. Indian soldiers were depicted in a range of representations that reflected a discursive tension between loyal, heroic warriors, and racialized primitives. A number of British authors wrote stories from the perspectives of Indian soldiers built to assuage Western anxieties over the presence of non-white colonial soldiers in Europe. The concept of ventriloquism is used to read these works as reproductions of the imperialist &quot;discourse of the master&quot; through the purported voice of the Indian soldier. The Eyes of Asia, a quartet of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, is the chosen case study for this critical analysis. The Eyes of Asia was a commissioned work of British military propaganda using an archive of letters written by Indian soldiers, gathered by British censors, and provided to Kipling. By comparing Kipling&apos;s stories written from the perspectives of fictional Indian soldiers against the letters by real Indians, the article reveals how Kipling manipulated the voices of Indian soldiers to produce a caricature of their testimony that conformed to British expectations of the men of the Indian army.

Název v anglickém jazyce

"A Very Entertaining Book": The Ventriloquism of Rudyard Kipling's The Eyes of Asia

Popis výsledku anglicky

This article is a critical comparison between the text of letters written by Indian soldiers on the Western Front of World War I, and the text of Rudyard Kipling&apos;s The Eyes of Asia. The deployment of Indian soldiers by the British Empire to the Western Front produced controversy, anxiety, and excitement among European observers. Indian soldiers were depicted in a range of representations that reflected a discursive tension between loyal, heroic warriors, and racialized primitives. A number of British authors wrote stories from the perspectives of Indian soldiers built to assuage Western anxieties over the presence of non-white colonial soldiers in Europe. The concept of ventriloquism is used to read these works as reproductions of the imperialist &quot;discourse of the master&quot; through the purported voice of the Indian soldier. The Eyes of Asia, a quartet of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, is the chosen case study for this critical analysis. The Eyes of Asia was a commissioned work of British military propaganda using an archive of letters written by Indian soldiers, gathered by British censors, and provided to Kipling. By comparing Kipling&apos;s stories written from the perspectives of fictional Indian soldiers against the letters by real Indians, the article reveals how Kipling manipulated the voices of Indian soldiers to produce a caricature of their testimony that conformed to British expectations of the men of the Indian army.

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J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60205 - Literary theory

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture

ISSN

0862-8424

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

31

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

61

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

80-99

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85115076966