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Author Grewal, Inderpal.

Title Home and harem : nation, gender, empire, and the cultures of travel / Inderpal Grewal
Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (x, 286 pages)
Series Post-contemporary interventions
Post-contemporary interventions.
Contents ENGLISH IMPERIAL CULTURE: Home and Harem: Domesticity, Gender, and Nationalism. Empire and the Movement for Women's Suffrage in Britain. The Guidebook and the Museum -- EUROIMPERIAL TRAVEL AND INDIAN WOMEN. The Culture of Travel and the Gendering of Colonial Modernity in Nineteenth- Century India. Pandita Ramabai and Parvati Athavale: Homes for Women, Feminism, and Nationalism
Summary Moving across academic disciplines, geographical boundaries, and literary genres, Home and Harem examines how travel shaped ideas about culture and nation in nineteenth-century imperialist England and colonial India. Inderpal Grewal's study of the narratives and discourses of travel reveals the ways in which the colonial encounter created linked yet distinct constructs of nation and gender and explores the impact of this encounter on both English and Indian men and women. Reworking colonial discourse studies to include both sides of the colonial divide, this work is also the first
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index
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Subject Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Literature and society -- India -- History -- 19th century
Culture conflict in literature.
Intercultural communication.
East and West in literature.
Women -- Books and reading.
Travel writing -- History
Feminism and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women -- India -- History
Imperialism.
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Literature and society -- history -- 19th century
Culture conflict in literature
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Culture conflict in literature.
East and West in literature.
Feminism and literature.
Imperialism.
Intercultural communication.
International relations.
Literature and society.
Sex role in literature.
Travel writing.
Travelers' writings, English.
Women.
Women -- Books and reading.
Reisverhalen.
Engels.
Feminisme.
Imperialisme.
Interculturele communicatie.
Récits de voyages anglais -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle.
Littérature et société -- Inde -- 19e siècle.
Conflit culturel -- Dans la littérature.
Femmes -- Livres et lecture.
Rôle selon le sexe -- Dans la littérature.
Femmes -- Inde -- Histoire.
Féminisme -- Dans la littérature.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Relations -- India
India -- Relations -- Great Britain
India https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007194
Subject Great Britain.
India.
Orient et Occident -- Dans la littérature.
Grande-Bretagne -- Relations -- Inde.
Inde -- Relations -- Grande-Bretagne.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822382003
0822382008