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    Rudyard Kipling and Louis Bertrand: Their Ideas on British-India (ns) and French-Algeria (ns) in Kim and Le Sang des Races
    (Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou, 2015) BEN SIDHOUM Fatima
    It is the purpose of the present dissertation to study the imperialist ideas and stances of two representative European writers of the nineteenth century, the British Rudyard Kipling and the French Louis Bertrand. Their respective perception of the Anglo-Indians and French-Algerians as the true or the real countrymen of Anglo-India and French-Algeria is the focal point of this study. To attain this goal, a recourse to New Historicist and Cultural Materialist theories is perceived as necessary to explore the historical and ideological underpinnings of the novels upon which this study will revolve, namely Kipling’s Kim (1901) and Bertrand’s Le Sang des Races (1899). Four chapters are thus conceived to analyse the novels from a vantage point that both writers share the same beliefs or rather philosophies about the insiders and outsiders of the colonies. The first chapter is exclusively devoted to explore the historical context which nurtured and fostered the elaboration of the writers’ doctrines and with which the novels are embedded. The second chapter is set to analyse how the writers represent, in the case of Kipling the Anglo-Indian and through the character of Kim as the legitimate master and countryman of Anglo-India and in the case of Bertrand, the French-Algerian through the character of Rafael as the genuine and rightful son of French-Algeria. In the third chapter, the perception or the representation of the natives is at stake. Through it I shall endeavour to underlie the discourse of subversion which is part and parcel of the discourse of power vehicled in both novels. In the last chapter, the study of the representation of Anglo-India and French-Algeria as “imagined communities” wherein the writers’ fantasies are infused and projected is to be emphasized.