T 9/21 Rudyard Kipling, Gunga Din and other Favorite Poems 6-9, 25-29, 52-53;

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Topic: Representations of the foreign and alien

1. In what various ways are the subjects or enemies of Britain’s colonial rule described in Kipling’s poems? How does this compare with his description of the British?

2. How does Kipling’s view of colonialism in “The White Man’s Burden” differ from Conrad’s?

3. In Heart of Darkness, what image of the European does Mr. Kurtz represent? How are the Africans presented in this book?