Kim and Kipling-A Character Subverts His Author's Imperialism

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Title:	Kim and Kipling-A Character Subverts His Author's Imperialism
Authors:	朱力安
Contributors:	中國文化大學
Date:	2001-07-01
Issue Date:	2012-05-15 11:12:15 (UTC+8)
Abstract:	這篇論文的論點是《肯姆》這本書中，由於主角身份的複雜性，產生了反帝國主義意含，推翻吉卜林的期望，原本他要將肯姆這個角色塑造成帝國主義的抬轎者，並將這本小說視為後殖民詮釋的工具，以便成功傳達帝國主義的意識型態。藉由指出書中主要角色的期盼－希望肯姆能恰當地反映他身為帝國主義門徒的行為，本文挖掘出肯姆心中真正的渴望。他渴望展現個人特質，以期在文中特別時刻取悅與他交通的人。在場景連續轉換中，肯姆的個人特質充份展露，改變了原本賦予他的職責，不再成為帝國主義的附庸。文中的結論可以探知書中角色的相關性，它符合新的價值體系，抬高肯姆的階級，使其超越國家民族，跳脫大英帝國所建立的規範。本文點明了《肯姆》的真正主旨，其實它是在嘲諷帝國主義，而非吉卜林用以捍衛帝國主義的文本。 This article argues that the multiplicity of its protagonist's identities generates in Kim anti-imperialist meanings that subvert both his author's wish to have him serve as bearer of an imperialist message as well as the postcolonial interpretation of Kipling's novel as being a successful vehicle for an imperialist ideology. Illustrating how principal characters wish for him to reflect behavior befitting of a protégé, the article excavates a desire in Kim to express such personal qualities as will please the character communicated with at any particular textual moment, such that Kim projects distinct personae with successive shifts in scene. The article concludes that it is the relativity of each persona's corresponding value schema that raises Kim above the hierarchy of nation and race upon which the British Empire was structured and makes of Kim a parody of the imperial project that his author intended to defend here.
Relation:	華岡英語學報 7期 P.89-104
Appears in Collections:	[Department of English Language and Literature ] Hwa Kang English Journal

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