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Kipling's children's literature : language, identity, and constructions of childhood /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walsh, Sue
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]
Series:Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.
Subjects:
Kipling, Rudyard, > 1865-1936 > Criticism and interpretation.
Children's stories, English > History and criticism.
Children in literature.
Kipling, Rudyard, > 1865-1936 > Language.
Table of Contents:
  • On children's books and 'mature' stories
  • The child as colonized or the colonized as child?
  • Translating 'animal', or reading the 'other' in Kipling's 'Mowgli' stories
  • A child speaking to children, biographical readings
  • The oral and the written in the 'Taffy' stories
  • Becoming 'civilized': the child and the primitive
  • 'And it was so, just so, a long time ago': Kipling and history.