Empire Space And Interpretation Of Kipling's Indian Novels

Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936) is one of the famous British writers in the 20th century. His works cover a wide range of diverse styles, extensive types of literature. Among his works, the early novels about pre-India are the most successful, including Jungle Books and Kim. In 1907, he became the first British writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swedish Academy for his remarkable ability to observe, innovative imagination, outstanding narrative and a powerful connotation.Traditionally, Kipling was considered as a spokesman of colonialist writer,which was highly controversial in the history of literature, and he has been the target of criticism in China. In recent years, along with the deepening of the context of Globalization and the rise of Empire studies, people have begun to pay more attention to the so-called imperialist writer. The academic study abroad on Kipling and his writings has become a hotspot in the past half century, and research on his works has extended to the depth of many Western humanistic and social science fields. However, the academic research on Kipling has just started in China. There are only a few research articles. A great gap existed between the abroad researches and the domestic researches in his works. The theoretical context of Empire provides a further research spaces for Kipling's study. The article mainly explores the Empire elements that reflected in his writings from the interpretations of multi-level and multi-directional, multi-dimensional.This paper is divided into four parts:Introduction: Recommending Kipling and his writings, introducing the study abroad on Kipling and raising the framework and vision of Imperial interpretation for Kipling works briefly.The first part discusses the relationship between Empire Context and Kipling's works. Firstly it concerned with the origin and development of the imperial, and discussed the Empire theory and its direction today. Secondly it focused on the British Empire and its colonial India. Finally it expatiated the represented British writers and their woks from the vision of Empire context and British literature, such as Defoe, Joseph, Conrad Foster and Kipling. These works have a theme, which reveals the connotation of Empire construction.The second part: the specific interpretation about Kipling's India novels in Empire theory. It's divided into three parts: Firstly, the Empire branch was found from his early works, it contained the idealized writing and unavoidable contradictions about Empire in reality, and considerations and concerns about the British Indian Empire. His works displayed India and every aspect of British Empire by realistic narration. Secondly, Empire is shaping. In the Jungle Books, the author built an Empire with rules and orders in his mind, which is correspond to the concept of empire in the political styles and historical traditions. Additionally, it also joins the writer's human thinking. The rules of the jungle that he raised still have practical significance today. Thirdly, His most outstanding novel—Kim, Analysis the prospective concept of East-West fusion, which covered all aspects of the empire in the modern society. Although the author may not realize, his subconscious expressed a pioneering sense in the thought of Empire. (From the developing process of Empire, the world is gradually entering the world Kipling has portrayed.) Of course, what we need is not only the cultural integration, but also more inclusive cultural assimilation. Moreover, it's also has profound practical significance that combining china's development with inspiration that have drawn from the research of Kipling's novel.Conclusion: the article interpreted Kipling's Indian novels in the theory of Empire. Whether in the literary field of vision colonial culture or post-colonial criticizing culture, or in globalized Empire Context, we find that Kipling took Empire context as his literature threshold. Although the Empires that Kipling built is only a Utopia, the rich connotation his works embodied and the prospective of Empire construction still have more important inspiration to us.