Missionary discourses of difference : negotiating otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900 / / Esme Cleall
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| Autore: |
Cleall Esme <1983->
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| Titolo: |
Missionary discourses of difference : negotiating otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900 / / Esme Cleall
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| Pubblicazione: | Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2012. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 266/.02341 |
| Soggetto topico: | Missions - Theory |
| Missions - Social aspects | |
| Missions - Great Britain | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Representing homes: gender and sexuality in missionary writing -- Re-making homes: ambiguous encounters and domestic transgressions -- Pathologising heathenism: discourses of sickness and the rise of medical missions -- Illness on the mission station: sickness and the presentation of the "self" -- Violence and the construction of the other -- Colonial violence: whiteness, violence and civilisation -- Conclusion: thinking with missionaries; thinking about difference. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Missionary discourses of difference |
| ISBN: | 1-283-53199-2 |
| 9786613844446 | |
| 1-137-03239-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826568103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, . 2635-1633