| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on Terminology; Introduction: Difference and Discourse in the British Empire; Part I: Families and Households: Difference and Domesticity; 1 Representing Homes: Gender and Sexuality in Missionary Writing; 2 Re-Making Homes: Ambiguous Encounters and Domestic Transgressions; Part II: Sickness and the Embodiment of Difference; 3 Pathologising Heathenism: Discourses of Sickness and the Rise of Medical Missions; 4 Illness on the Mission Station: Sickness and the Presentation of the 'Self'; Part III: Violence and Racialisation |
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5 Violence and the Construction of the Other6 Colonial Violence: Whiteness, Violence and Civilisation; Conclusion: Thinking with Missionaries, Thinking about Difference; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Missions -- Great Britain -- Miscellanea
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Missions -- Social aspects
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Missions -- Theory.
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Missions
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Missions -- Social aspects
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Missions -- Theory
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137032393 |
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1137032391 |
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