فصل الخطاب
Volume 15, Numéro 1, Pages 739-757
2026-03-30
When An Ephebe Interpolates Into His Precursor’s Colonial Discourse: “the Man Who Would Be King” Reinterpreting The Tempest
Authors : Fetnaci Abdelhakim . Belgrimet Souad .
Abstract
This paper aims at examining how the English writer Rudyard Kipling appropriates and interpolates into William Shakespeare’s colonial discourse in The Tempest (1610-11). Precisely, it claims that Kipling’s short story “The Man Who Would Be King” (1888) re-writes, consciously or unconsciously, Shakespeare’s The Tempest in a way that enables him to comment on some of the emphatic themes that are implied in the play, such as racism, colonialism, conflict between the Self and the Other, and, more importantly, resistance. The tension between the two Englishmen and the indigenous people of Kafiristan is adapted from Shakespeare’s play, especially between Prospero, the two Neapolitans, and their slave, Caliban. This essay is based on a close reading and a textual analysis of The Tempest and “The Man Who Would Be King” from an anti-colonial perspective. Ultimately, this paper argues that through his text, Kipling attempts to deconstruct Eurocentrism by giving voice to the marginalised people regarding the colonial discourse.
Keywords
Appropriation ; colonialism ; Other ; racism ; re-write
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