'Don Randall's 'Kipling's Imperial Boy' is an important contribution to Kipling studies and to the area of colonial discourse analysis more generally. Historically sensitive and theoretically aware, it provides a persuasive and original mapping of theories of cultural hybridity onto discourses of adolescence - and vice versa. In a series of close ... Read morereadings of 'The Jungle Books', 'Stalky and Co' and 'Kim', Randall ably demonstrates that Kipling's imperial boys are liminal figures who both subvert and reinforce the borders between cultures and who both counter and confirm the masculinism of colonial epistemology. 'Kipling's Imperial Boy' is further evidence of the continuing recuperation of Kipling as a complex and important artist and thinker.' - Bart Moore Gilbert, University of London '...a very impressive piece of work.' - Laurence Kitzan, Victorian Studies Show Less