Abstract

Without wholly rejecting the perspective proposed by Bhabha , the author refuses the idea that the identification of such structural rifts could be enough to account for the political agency of the subaltern. She thus calls for focused historical analyses of actual political situations, capable of understanding the concrete articulation between the deeply inter-related dynamics of gender, sexuality, race and class. She shows that colonization was not, from the point of view of the colonial powers, an external affair, nor a historical accident unrelated to their historical essence, and that colonization and the processes of socio-political transformation within the colonial powers maintained a close intricacy