The provincial cosmopolitan: Kipling, India and globalization

Bubb, Alexander

doi:10.1080/17449855.2012.754784

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“…The poem contains fears about technological advancements and globalisation; as Alexander Bubb notes, it 'imagines a technological zenith that effectively marks the end of history, a consummation described […] apocalyptically […] as men's murder "their father Time"'. 29 Moreover, in the half line preceding this latter one, the poem notes that men have 'wakened the timeless Things' by 'Joining hands in the gloom'. 30 Though this may refer to the awakening of the cables though the literal connection of the two continents, it may also be interpreted as referring to primordial underwater monsters awakened by men's technological hubris, just as Victor Frankenstein's creature was awakened by his maker's medical ambitions.…”

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Decolonising Deep-Sea Gothic: Perspectives from the Americas

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Gothic Studies

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This article argues that gothic tropes are central to depictions of the ocean across different genres and forms, but there is a colonial and decolonial trend in the use of horror in portrayal of the sea. This article identifies how gothic depictions of the deep-sea form part of a specific tradition of ecophobic representations of the deep in western narratives aiming to control and commodify. These depictions are profoundly marked by colonial legacies, as this paper shows by analysing briefly Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘The Deep-Sea Cables’ (1896) and William Eubank’s film Underwater (2020). The article then considers how gothic tropes persisting in post-colonial and decolonial cultural productions serve to identify, first, structural colonial violence still present today; and second, an anxiety about our ecosystem in a time of climate crisis in Rita Indiana’s novel La Mucama de Omicunlé (2015) and works emerging from the Caribbean and Latin America.

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Decolonising Deep-Sea Gothic: Perspectives from the Americas

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“…Charlie Mears is the antithesis to Kipling himself, whose 'vision of the global [is] always undergirded by the local'. 61 His predicament is troped through a telephone image, an apt symbol of modern trade networks. 'The plastic mind of the bank-clerk' is compared to 'a confused tangle of other voices most like the muttered song through a City telephone in the busiest part of the day' (295).…”

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