Native Mis/Rule and ‘Oriental Despotism’ in Alexandre Dumas’s Adventures in Algeria (1846) and Rudyard Kipling’s From Sea to Sea, Letters of Travel (1889)

Authors

  • Mouloud Siber Mouloud MAMMERI University of Tizi-Ouzou
  • Bouteldja Riche Mouloud MAMMERI University of Tizi-Ouzou

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18034/ajhal.v1i2.284

Keywords:

Oriental despotism, Kipling, Dumas, Anglo-India, French-Algeria

Abstract

Borrowing concepts from Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978), this article argues that Rudyard Kipling holds the same views on native rule in India as Alexandre Dumas does on Algerian structures of government. Both regard native rule as a paradigm of ‘Oriental despotism,’ which Orientalist scholars attribute to Oriental structures of power. Dumas asserts that Algerians owe their ‘misgovernment’ to the political influence of their late Turkish conqueror. Kipling contrasts native ‘misrule’ with enlightened British rule in order to legitimate British encroachment in India. Besides, both agree that native misgovernment fosters the spread of corruption and violence among their subjects.

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Author Biographies

  • Mouloud Siber, Mouloud MAMMERI University of Tizi-Ouzou

    Department of English, Mouloud MAMMERI University of Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria

  • Bouteldja Riche , Mouloud MAMMERI University of Tizi-Ouzou

    Department of English, Mouloud MAMMERI University of Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria

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Published

2014-12-31

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014): July - December Issue

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Siber, M. ., & Riche , B. . (2014). Native Mis/Rule and ‘Oriental Despotism’ in Alexandre Dumas’s Adventures in Algeria (1846) and Rudyard Kipling’s From Sea to Sea, Letters of Travel (1889). Asian Journal of Humanity, Art and Literature, 1(2), 71-76. https://doi.org/10.18034/ajhal.v1i2.284
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