Missionary discourse
Subtitle: negotiating difference in the British Empire, c. 1840-95
By: by Esme Cleall
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780230296800
Subjects: Social aspects; Miscellanea; Missions; Theory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Representing homes: gender and sexuality in missionary writing; title: Re-making homes: ambiguous encounters and domestic transgressions; title: Pathologising heathenism: discourses of sickness and the rise of medical missions; title: Illness on the mission station: sickness and the presentation of the "self"; title: Violence and the construction of the other; title: Colonial violence: whiteness, violence and civilisation; title: Conclusion: thinking with missionaries; thinking about difference.