Missionary discourses of difference [electronic resource] : negotiating otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900 / Esme Cleall.

By: Cleall, Esme, 1983-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies seriesPublication details: Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Description: xi, 243 pSubject(s): Missions -- Theory | Missions -- Social aspects | Missions -- Great Britain -- MiscellaneaGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 266/.02341 LOC classification: BV2063 | .C54 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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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