Dermographia written on the skin or, how the Irish became white in India

Mohanram, Radhika ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4243-2509 2005. Dermographia written on the skin or, how the Irish became white in India. European Journal of English Studies 9 (3) , pp. 251-270. 10.1080/13825570500363492

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Abstract

This article meditates on the meaning of skin and its politics and is divided into two parts. The first part is concerned with a historical/cultural examination of skin, linking it to theories of embodiment and colonialism/racism. In the second part, Rudyard Kipling's Kim is examined for its positing of the ambivalent-skinned Irish protagonist. The article concludes by scripting in the notion of postwhiteness, and attempts to provide a reading of skin alternative to the Cartesian comprehension of the mind-body split.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	1382-5577
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 09:03
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/79677

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