Contesting the can(n)on: Revisiting Kim in I. Allan Sealy's The Trotter-Nama

摘要

This article reveals the uneasy continuum (and gaps) between Rudyard Kipling's canonical Raj novel, Kim, and I. Allan Sealy's The Trotter-Nama (1988), the text that maps the history of Anglo-Indians. The article enumerates the principal themes of Anglo-Indian fiction before demonstrating the way The Trotter-Nama rewrites and resituates Kim, challenging his view of Anglo-India and his assumptions about race, and ultimately repositioning it as part of, rather than the principal work in, the Raj canon.