Next up in session 1.3 we have Madhubrata Bhattacharyya on ‘Representing English Catholicism In Early Modern Goa: The Many Identities of Fr. Thomas Stephens’. #OnBelonging
Majoritarian regimes bringing up difficult questions in terms of identity. Example from William Foster’s preface to ‘Early Travels in India’ — the ‘sturdy Protestantism’ of the Englishman #OnBelonging
Now to Father Thomas Stephens: his work shows that ‘English’ and ‘Jesuit’ are not necessarily exclusive identities. Shown with from a letter by Ralph Fitch, an Englishman writing about Stephens ensuring their release from prison... #OnBelonging
...and a quotation from Ramachandra Prasad speaking of Stephens as the ‘patriotic pride’ of England. #OnBelonging
Juxtaposition of pronouns in Stephens' work – ‘we’ for Jesuits and ‘they’ for the English. Ambivalence as both an English Catholic and an Englishman in the Portuguese Estado da India. #OnBelonging
Gap created through this ambivalence of identity: belonging for Stephens becomes something predicated on that sense of estrangement and intersecting, liminal positions. #OnBelonging
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