Tickell, Alex
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1080/17449850903064674 |
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Abstract
This essay concentrates on one of Kipling’s short-stories, ‘William the Conqueror’, first published in an American women’s magazine, 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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2009 Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 1744-9855 |
| Keywords: | Kipling, biopolitics, famine, romance, gender, colonialism |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Arts > English |
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| Item ID: | 28735 |
| Depositing User: | Alex Tickell |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2011 08:43 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Mar 2013 22:42 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/28735 |
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