Abstract
Textual productions telling the encounters, perceptions, experiences in the field of international development practice can be defined as “developmental contact literature”; they co-shape the narrative of “development” as a hegemonic relationship between the global North and the global South. The article presents and discusses intertwinements between strategies of gendering, racializing, and modernizing in three selected text types: auto/biographical tales by technical assistants and development experts about the contact zone “development”; didactic case studies in training or teaching manuals for technical co-operation and development aid, with a focus on women and gender mainstreaming; and eventually in fiction, in literary texts both of the popular genre (Henning Mankell) and of so-called postcolonial fiction (Nuruddin Farah).
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