Missionary Discourses of Difference

Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900

AvE. Cleall

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of missionary concern, and important axes around which colonial difference was forged.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-01-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt:327 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Antal sidor:243
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349333981

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Afrikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

ESME CLEALL studied at the University of Sheffield, UK, before completing a PhD at UCL. She currently teaches Modern History at the University of Liverpool. Her research is on the social and cultural history of Britain and its Empire and the intersections between 'race', 'gender' and 'disability' in colonial thought. Her new project investigates nineteenth-century understandings of deafness.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements Introduction. Difference and Discourse in the British Empire Note on Terminology PART I: FAMILIES AND HOUSEHOLDS: DIFFERENCE AND DOMESTICITY Introduction: Difference and Domesticity Representing Homes: Gender and Sexuality in Missionary Writing Re-making Homes: Ambiguous Encounters and Domestic Transgressions PART II: SICKNESS AND THE EMBODIMENT OF DIFFERENCE Introduction: Sickness and the Embodiment of Difference Pathologising Heathenism: Discourses of Sickness and the Rise of Medical Missions Illness on the Mission Station: Sickness and the Presentation of the 'Self' PART III: VIOLENCE AND DIFFERENCE Violence and the Construction of the Other Colonial Violence: Whiteness, Violence and Civilisation Conclusion