Hortense Gardner Gates Correspondence

Entries include an advertisement postcard with a photograph of Gates and letters on hand made stationery. Date range: 1949-04/1949-1

Hortense Gardner Gates Correspondence

Entries include an advertisement postcard with a photograph of Gates and letters on hand made stationery. Date range: 1949-04/1949-1

Kipling's famine-romance: masculinity, gender and colonial biopolitics in “William the Conqueror”

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