{"title":"\"Be careful. I am death!\": \"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi\" and Britons' \"Great War\" against Snakes in Late-Nineteenth-Century India","authors":"Sharon B. Murphy","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article situates Kipling's \"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi\" (1894) in relation to the \"Great War\" that Britons waged against snakes in late-nineteenth-century India. It argues the tale is informed by two (linked) recognitions: that Britons may prove incapable either of \"mastering\" this species of the subcontinent's fauna or of protecting their children within the imperial realm.","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Childrens Literature","FirstCategoryId":"1092","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0008","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"N/A","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article situates Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" (1894) in relation to the "Great War" that Britons waged against snakes in late-nineteenth-century India. It argues the tale is informed by two (linked) recognitions: that Britons may prove incapable either of "mastering" this species of the subcontinent's fauna or of protecting their children within the imperial realm.
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