Choosing between Nature and Law in Kipling’s Jungle Book
Choosing between Nature and Law in Kipling’s Jungle Book

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I analyze the notions of Nature and Law that gravitate in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. Based on different opinions and historical events, it explores the destabilization of the border that separated the natural and the social in colonial India. The content and scope of the Rule of Law of the imperial centers is also worked in relation to the “non-human” subjects that inhabited the colonial territories. It is observed that, in the Jungle Book, the line that separates the social and the natural is a border in constant movement. It is concluded that the destabilization of spaces and subjectivities invites a reflection on the lodging of strangers, nonhumanized and dehumanized beings that inhabit our communities.

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