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Missionary Discourses of Difference : Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900.
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 wh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on Terminology; Introduction: Difference and Discourse in the British Empire; Part I: Families and Households: Difference and Domesticity; 1 Representing Homes: Gender and Sexuality in Missionary Writing; 2 Re-Making Homes: Ambiguous Encounters and Domestic Transgressions; Part II: Sickness and the Embodiment of Difference; 3 Pathologising Heathenism: Discourses of Sickness and the Rise of Medical Missions; 4 Illness on the Mission Station: Sickness and the Presentation of the 'Self'; Part III: Violence and Racialisation.
- 5 Violence and the Construction of the Other6 Colonial Violence: Whiteness, Violence and Civilisation; Conclusion: Thinking with Missionaries, Thinking about Difference; Notes; Bibliography; Index.