Colonial Masculinity Research Articles

Mrinalini Sinha. <italic>Colonial Masculinity: The “Manly Englishman” and the “Effeminate Bengali” in the Late Nineteenth Century</italic>. (Studies in Imperialism.) New York: Manchester University Press: distributed by St. Martin's, New York. 1995. Pp. xi, 191. Cloth $69.95, paper $19.95

Mrinalini Sinha. <italic>Colonial Masculinity: The “Manly Englishman” and the “Effeminate Bengali” in the Late Nineteenth Century</italic>. (Studies in Imperialism.) New York: Manchester University Press: distributed by St. Martin's, New York. 1995. Pp. xi, 191. Cloth $69.95, paper $19.95

Colonial Masculinity: The "Manly Englishman" and the "Effeminate Bengali" in the Late Nineteenth Century

Colonial Masculinity: The "Manly Englishman" and the "Effeminate Bengali" in the Late Nineteenth Century

Book Reviews : MRINALINI SINHA, Colonial Masculinity: The 'Manly Englishman' and the 'Effeminate Bengali' in the Late Nineteenth Century, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1997

Book Reviews : MRINALINI SINHA, Colonial Masculinity: The 'Manly Englishman' and the 'Effeminate Bengali' in the Late Nineteenth Century, New Delhi, Kali for Women, 1997

Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India (review)

In this insightful and sophisticated study of contested identities in colonial and postcolonial India, Parama Roy expands the notion of mimicry put forth by Frantz Fanon in Black Skin, White Masks. In India the colonial enforcement of mimicry was laid out in Macaulay's notorious "Minute on Education" of 1835 which set as a goal the creation of "a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect" whose function was to be "interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern." This English educated class of men, which spanned from the clerical to the elite and was epitomized in the persona of the Bengali babu, was ridiculed as failed Englishmen (most offensively in T. A. Guthrie's Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, 1897) and scorned as degenerate males (as analyzed in Mrinalini Sinha's Colonial Masculinity: The "Manly Englishman" and the "Effeminate Bengali" in the Late Nineteenth Century). Yet they were also feared as potential subversive nationalists. What if, using their skills but transgressing their assignment, these middlemen became the voice of an insurgent Indian nation instead of fulfilling their mandate as spokesmen for British sway? Among their descendants are prominent postcolonial critics such as Ashis Nandy, Partha Chatterjee, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and, in this volume, Parama Roy.

Book reviews and notices : MRINALINI SINHA, Colonial masculinity: The 'manly Englishman' and the 'effeminate Bengali' in the late nineteenth century. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1997. x + 191 pp. Notes, index. Rs. 350 (hardback)

Book reviews and notices : MRINALINI SINHA, Colonial masculinity: The 'manly Englishman' and the 'effeminate Bengali' in the late nineteenth century. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1997. x + 191 pp. Notes, index. Rs. 350 (hardback)

Pit(iful) Male Bodies: Colonial Masculinity, Class and Folk Innocence in Margaret’s Museum

Cet article analyse Margaret’s Museum de Mort Ransen à la lumière d’un développement conceptuel de la notion de «masculinité coloniale» proposée par Robert Fothergill au cours des années 70, qui permet de mieux comprendre comment la masculinité coloniale et ses histoires circulent à travers des films issus de régions marginales. Contrairement à la perception traditionnelle du cinéma canadien anglais peuplé de perdants et de victimes qui incarnent le «besoin de perdre» des canadiens, Margaret’s Museum questionne l’idée d’une masculinité pancanadienne en péril, en mettant l’emphase sur le local et le particulier pour souligner les différences et les contradictions entre les régions, les classes sociales et les genres. En se concentrant sur l’histoire coloniale complexe du Cap Breton, par rapport au reste du Canada, et sur sa position ambiguë face aux constructions régionales «d’innocence du peuple, » cet article propose une lecture du film qui exprime un aspect distinct de l’expérience du colonialisme et de la construction de la masculinité coloniale. De plus, Margaret’s Museum se démarque de la majorité des autres textes néo-colonialistes en adoptant une position féminine pour élabo - rer sa déconstruction de la vision patriarcale que la communauté a de sa propre situ ation marginale.

Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel. Inderpal GrewalColonial Masculinity: The "Manly Englishman" and the "Effeminate Bengali" in the Late Nineteenth Century. Mrinalini SinhaRace and the Education of Desire: Foucault's "History of Sexuality" and the Colonial Order of Things. Ann Laura Stoler

<i>Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel</i>. Inderpal Grewal<i>Colonial Masculinity: The "Manly Englishman" and the "Effeminate Bengali" in the Late Nineteenth Century</i>. Mrinalini Sinha<i>Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's "History of Sexuality" and the Colonial Order of Things</i>. Ann Laura Stoler

Colonial manhood and masculinities

Colonial manhood and masculinities

Colonial Masculinity: The "Manly Englishman" and the "Effeminate" Bengali in the Late Nineteenth Century (review)

Colonial Masculinity: The "Manly Englishman" and the "Effeminate" Bengali in the Late Nineteenth Century (review)

Colonial Masculinity: The ‘manly Englishman’ and the ‘effeminate Bengali’ in the late 19th century. By Mrinalini Sinha. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995. xi, 191 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Colonial Masculinity: The ‘manly Englishman’ and the ‘effeminate Bengali’ in the late 19th century. By Mrinalini Sinha. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995. xi, 191 pp. 19.95 (paper). - Volume 56 Issue 3

Book Reviews

Robert J. C. Young, Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and RaceCarole Boyce Davies, Black Women, Writing, and Identity: Migrations of the SubjectMaria Luddy, Hanna Sheehy SkeffingtonGail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 7880–7977Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial ConquestMiranda Shaw, Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric BuddhismVron Ware, Beyond the Pale. White Women, Racism and HistoryMrinalini Sinha, Colonial Masculinity: The ‘Manly Englishman’ and the ‘Effeminate Bengali’ in the Late Nineteenth CenturyBina Agarwal, A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South AsiaFrancine Masiello, Between Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern ArgentinaGertrude M. Yeager (ed.) Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition: Women in Latin American HistorySusan K. Besse, Restructuring Patriarchy: The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914–1940Richard C. Trexler, Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the AmericasMegan Vaughan, Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African IllnessHenrietta L. Moore and Megan Vaughan, Cutting Down Trees. Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890–1990Shula Marks, Divided Sisterhood: Race, Class and Gender in the South African Nursing ProfessionHeike Becker, Namibian Women's Movement 1980 to 1992: From Anti‐Colonial Resistance to Reconstruction