"Humanitarian Bombing"

[Annalee Newitz]

No Kipling didn't emerge until late in the nineteenth century, around the
time a few other colonial fantasy narratives were being written, like
_Dracula_ (also an Eastern European menace narrative, interestingly).  By
1898 (when Drac was published), imperialism had become bound up with
ideological spectacle that Queen V. was throwing these mega-parties (I think
in 98 it was the Diamond Jubilee) to celebrate the Empire.  As for early
British Imperialism, well, that's outside my historical/cultural expertise.
But I can say that some scholars have cited "The Tempest" as one of England's
earliest imperial fantasies.

Annalee

Doug Henwood wrote:


> Rkmickey at aol.com wrote:
>
> >Try Kipling:
>
> Yeah I know about Kipling, but I wonder how representative that was, and
> where it stood in the history of British colonial narratives. Surely that
> sort of stuff didn't emerge at the first imperial moment, did it?
>
> Doug

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