SOURCE: “On the Threshold of Otherness: British India in ‘El hombre en el umbral,’” in Out of Context: Historical Reference and Representation of Reality in Borges, Duke University Press, 1993, pp. 98–114.
In the following essay, Balderston examines Borges's use of colonial India in his fiction, and his attitude toward colonialism, contrasting Borges's story “The Man on the Threshold” with Rudyard Kipling's “On the City Wall.”
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