Missionary discourses of difference negotiating otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900 / [electronic resource] :
Esme Cleall.
- Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- xi, 243 p.
- 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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.