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From: Peter Lewis, 106066.2074
To: James McCearney, INTERNET:[log in to unmask]
Date: 7/1/00 7:49 PM
RE: Kipling and racism
Dear Mr McCearmey,
Max Rives has forwarded us your request for sources about Kipling
and racism. Edward Shanks, in his book Rudyard Kipling (London:
Macmillan 1940) denied that Kipling was racist, but that was in the context
that he didn't approve of Hitler, which is undeniable but doesn't touch on
the modern definition of racism. Then there is Nirad C. Chaudhuri's 'The
Finest Story about India - in English', collected in John Gross (ed.),
Rudyard Kipling, the Man, his Work and his World; (London: Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, 1972). More recent writers whom you might find useful tend to
argue that Kipling was racist, but in a forgiveable way. Examples are
Salman Rushdie's 'Kipling', collected in Imaginary Homelands, London:
Granta Books, 1991, and Zohreh T. Sullivan, Narratives of Empire, Cambridge
University Press 1993.
I hope this will be of use to you. Yours sincerely, Lisa Lewis
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