Missionary discourses of difference : negotiating otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900 / / Esme Cleall.
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
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| Physical Description: | xi, 243 p. |
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Table of 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.