Missionary discourses of difference negotiating otherness in the British empire, 1840-1900

Cleall, Esme 1983-

Missionary discourses of difference negotiating otherness in the British empire, 1840-1900 - New York Palgrave Macmillan 2012 - xi,243p. 23 cm. - Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series . - Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Missions--Theory.
Missions--Social aspects.
Missions--Miscellanea.--Great Britain

BV2063 / .C54 2012

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