The rhetoric of empire: gender representations in Portuguese India.

Portuguese Studies | January 1, 2005| | Copyright

The reason I can do English stuff or even sometimes French stuff is not my personal acumen. It's the history of postcolonial peoples. Our access into universality was to learn Western discourse. I call us the wild anthropologists. (Gayatri Chakravorty Spikav)

1. The Argument *

European imperial representations of India were to a considerable extent built upon notions of gender. (1) So much so that Anne McClintock has called gendering the imperial unknown; an unknown that is mostly feminine. (2) Gender and gender relations provide logical operations that ...

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