MOWGLI: LIMINALITY AS A PATH TO POWER
MOWGLI: LIMINALITY AS A PATH TO POWER

Summary/Abstract: In The Jungle Books, Mowgli cannot assimilate the difference between opposing worlds, cannot bridge them. The feral-child feels excluded from both the world of the jungle and from that of the native village and his anxiety inscribes the narration of the jungle stories in the Orientalistic vision of an archaic India that opposes the progress brought about by the colonizers. Moreover, his upbringing in both the world of the jungle and in that of the native village renders him as a hybrid imperial hero who discovers in his liminality the path to power.

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