Missionary Discourses of Difference [electronic resource] : Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900 /
Cleall, E.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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.
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.
Asia—History.
Africa—History.
Great Britain—History.
History, Modern.
Imperialism.
Asian History.
African History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Modern History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
History of South Asia.