Beast and Man in India: Undoing John Lockwood Kipling's Imperial Citation

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FILM CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI:10.1353/crt.2022.a899723

Oishani Sengupta

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Abstract:This article posits that John Lockwood Kipling's Beast and Man in India (1891), the illustrated compendium on animals that mixes discussions of colonial cross-species entanglements with personal reflections on transforming local arts and crafts in India in the service of imperial power, is a multiauthored book. Centering the presence of Indian illustrators as central to Beast and Man's texture, this essay uses the term "imperial citation" to highlight the range of strategies Kipling uses to overtly and covertly appropriate the labor of Indigenous creators within the fabric of this volume. By placing the material text within the context of colonial print culture and Kipling's extensive involvement with art pedagogy in India, the author close reads Kipling's animal ethnography alongside elements of layout and illustration to analyze his metaphoric use of "animal training" as a method of suppressing the cultural agency of Indian artists working under him. A critique of Kipling's concept of animal training is a starting point for doing colonial bibliography reparatively, suggesting the need to overcome existing paradigms of inequitable description as essential to generating an anticolonial bibliographic practice.

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印度的兽与人:解开约翰·洛克伍德·吉卜林的帝国引文

摘要:本文认为，约翰·洛克伍德·吉卜林的《印度的兽与人》(1891年)是一本多作者合著的书，它是一本关于动物的插图汇编，其中既有对殖民地跨物种纠缠的讨论，也有对印度当地艺术和工艺为帝国权力服务的个人反思。以印度插画家的存在为中心，作为《兽与人》的核心，本文使用“帝国引用”一词来突出吉卜林在本卷的结构中公开和秘密地使用土著创作者的劳动的策略范围。通过将材料文本置于殖民印刷文化和吉卜林在印度广泛参与艺术教育学的背景下，作者仔细阅读吉卜林的动物人种志，以及布局和插图的元素，分析他隐喻性地使用“动物训练”作为压制在他之下工作的印度艺术家的文化代理的方法。对吉卜林的动物训练概念的批评是对殖民书目进行修复的起点，表明需要克服现有的不公平描述范式，这对于产生反殖民书目实践至关重要。

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期刊介绍： Film Criticism is a peer-reviewed, online publication whose aim is to bring together scholarship in the field of cinema and media studies in order to present the finest work in this area, foregrounding textual criticism as a primary value. Our readership is academic, although we strive to publish material that is both accessible to undergraduates and engaging to established scholars. With over 40 years of continuous publication, Film Criticism is the third oldest academic film journal in the United States. We have published work by such international scholars as Dudley Andrew, David Bordwell, David Cook, Andrew Horton, Ann Kaplan, Marcia Landy, Peter Lehman, Janet Staiger, and Robin Wood. Equally important, FC continues to present work from emerging generations of film and media scholars representing multiple critical, cultural and theoretical perspectives. Film Criticism is an open access academic journal that allows readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose except where otherwise noted.