• DOI:10.1353/jwh.2011.0036
Corpus ID: 143705079

Kipling, the Orient, and Orientals: “Orientalism” Reoriented?

@article{Scott2011KiplingTO,
  title={Kipling, the Orient, and Orientals: “Orientalism” Reoriented?},
  author={D. Scott},
  journal={Journal of World History},
  year={2011},
  volume={22},
  pages={299 - 328}
}

D. Scott

Published 2011

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Journal of World History

Rudyard Kipling and Edward Said are influential figures in reconstructing Western attitudes to the East. Kipling’s comments on the “East” outside India, however, show a different picture from Said’s Orientalism paradigm of negative portrayals of the Orient, which included Kipling as a typical Orientalist supremacist. Kipling emphasized threats from China rather than from the Muslim world. Kipling also had a range of positive comments on Burma, Japan, and Tibet, reflecting a common Buddhist… CONTINUE READING

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