Kipling's famine-romance
"Masculinity, gender and colonial biopolitics in "William the Conqueror
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alex Tickell (0000-0001-9271-3873) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 251-262 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449850903064674 |
| OpenAlex | W1976258286 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
Our present understanding of colonial masculinity is strongly mediated by Kipling’s fictional representation of late 19th‐century India as a space of male self‐determination and imperial service. This article concentrates on one of Kipling’s short stories, published in American and British women’s magazines and speculates on how a female audience might have caused Kipling to modify his (conventional) depiction of Anglo‐Indian gender relations. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben’s work and reviewing the history of colonial famine relief, I suggest that the formal conjunction of the romance genre with the unusual setting of a famine‐relief camp is the key to Kipling’s “gender transactions” in this story, and can be read as an indicator of the “biopolitical” logic of the camp as a space of sovereign exception
Art · Biopower · Colonialism · Depiction · Famine · Literature · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Romance · Sociology · American and British Literature Analysis · American Literature and Culture · Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity · Gender Studies · History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |