Transformation of the Western Gaze: A Postcolonial Analysis of Rudyard Kipling and John Davies’ ‘Kim’

Construction of the Orient by 'West' in narrative imaginations involves numerous problematic distortions its depictions. This ‘construction’ follows view through ‘western gaze’, which establishes and further thrives on binaries hegemonies between Occident Orient, mainly processes ‘exoticisation’ ‘othering’. Kipling’s ‘Kim’ Davies’ adaptation book can be seen to employ gaze’ different manners according their respective affiliations with colonial postcolonial periods. paper seeks trace transformation this western gaze from Postcolonial period; a film, explores how it brings about consequences period modern contemporary world.