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- Title
Knowing Kim, Knowing in Kim.
- Authors
FELLION, MATTHEW
- Abstract
This essay examines Rudyard Kipling's canny treatment of knowledge in Kim. While the novel itself performs ethnology, seeming to convey suspect knowledge about the races, religions, and castes of India, it also examines this performance as a practice in itself and registers the challenges of knowing other people, both through ethnography and through the representations of fiction. Rather than undertake this examination explicitly, Kim uses the resources of the novel, such as narrative and dialogical strategies, to distinguish between practices of knowing and between categories of knowledge claims, and to explore the limits of these practices and claims.
- Subjects
KIM (Book : Kipling); KIPLING, Rudyard, 1865-1936; THEORY of knowledge in literature; INDIA in literature; ETHNOLOGY &; literature
- Publication
SEL: Studies in English Literature (Johns Hopkins), 2013, Vol 53, Issue 4, p897
- ISSN
0039-3657
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/sel.2013.0038