We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Sexualized Racial-Colonial Grotesque in the Company Archives.
- Authors
Jain, Shruti
- Abstract
Building on Michel Foucault and Ann Laura Stoler's recontextualizing of the Foucauldian theory of sexuality, I propose the category of the "sexualized racial-colonial grotesque" to unravel the double of Warren Hastings's crime of corruption that Edmund Burke indexes onto his construction of Munny Begum. Throughout the infamous impeachment proceedings, 1787-95, Burke is deeply disturbed by Hastings' relationships with Indians from varied caste-gender-class categories. These relationships disrupt mobilities that are historically and socially permitted in Indian and British codes of conduct. The most unhinged example of Burke's anxieties around the spilling over of private relationships into political decisions is Hastings's relationship with Begum. Through this construction, Burke poses Begum's "deviant" sexuality as generative to and of power.
- Subjects
GROTESQUE in literature; FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984; STOLER, Ann Laura; HUMAN sexuality in literature; HASTINGS, Warren; CORRUPTION in literature; BURKE, Edmund, 1729-1797; BEGUM, Munni
- Publication
Eighteenth Century Fiction, 2023, Vol 35, Issue 4, p509
- ISSN
0840-6286
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/ecf.35.4.509