Holes, Pits, and Caves: Empire, Ecology, and Ontology

Gautam Basu Thakur

doi:10.3366/vic.2023.0506

Holes, Pits, and Caves: Empire, Ecology, and Ontology

Gautam Basu Thakur

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This essay examines Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes’ (1885) and Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Terror of Blue John Gap’ (1912) in order to discuss how representations of sudden entrapments of colonisers in uncanny chasms such as pits, holes, and caves evoke historical/generational memories of imperial trauma alongside unraveling fundamental truths about human ontology as irretrievably splintered and death driven.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	321-339
Number of pages	19
Journal	Victoriographies
Volume	13
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3366/vic.2023.0506
State	Published - Nov 2023

Keywords

(super)natural
imperial fiction
necroecology
ontology
psychoanalytic theory

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