Authors like Rudyard Kipling and H. Rider Haggard are still read today and provide their readers with fascinating accounts of far away lands and people. Being citizens of the British Empire, the topic of colonialism plays into their stories. In parts adopting colonial stereotypes while simultaneously giving readers a more differentiated picture of natives, we will focus on two famous adventure novels and analyse, how colonialist thinking did, and did not influence those novels.
Students are asked to buy their copies of Kipling’s Kim (Wordsworth Classics) and Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines (Penguin Classics). A reader with additional texts will be made available. |
