![]() ![]() It misses some of the interesting questions the stories raise about notions of belonging and identity. ![]() The classic account of Kipling, while persuasive in many ways, seems to me to be a bit limited. As a scholar whose focus has been both on Kipling’s children’s literature and, more broadly, the representation of animals in children’s fiction, I’ve been asked to take part in a BBC Radio 3 Proms Plus talk on the subject. It’s a piece that he wrote in the first half of the 20th century as part of his nearly life-long effort to set the whole of Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book to music. So its interesting that among the wide variety of music to be performed at the 2019 Proms is Charles Koechlin’s Les Bandar-log. Mowgli – the Indian boy who becomes “master” of the jungle – is understood to be – as Kipling scholar John McClure interprets it: “ behaving towards the beasts as the British do to the Indians”. Indeed, a classic way of reading the tales is as an allegory for the position of the white colonialist born and raised in India. ![]() The stories have remained popular and have inspired numerous adaptations – but their attitudes have been questioned by some parents and critics, who see them as a relic of Britain’s colonial past. Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books were first published in 18, and they feature stories about Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. ![]()
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