![]() ![]() The individual elements of this text can then be delineated and categorised, thereby rendering India as a clearly definable entity which can be understood and controlled in spite of its diversity. The repetition and sheer number of stereotypes in Kipling's novel create the impression of a timeless and unchanging India, transforming its dynamic culture into an inscribed discourse, or in other words a text. These stereotypes not only serve to reinforce the idea of European superiority over the native population of India, but also reveal a key mechanism that has been used since the late eighteenth century to assert and maintain Western dominance, namely the subjection of the Orient to a form of temporal stasis. It argues that despite the praise the novel has received for its realism, it in fact contains a large number of negative stereotypes about the Orient. ![]() ![]() This essay analyses the representation of the Orient in Rudyard Kipling's Kim. ![]()
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