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Missionary Discourses of Difference

Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, C.1840-1900

  • Hardback
  • 256 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

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Through their copious published writings, missionaries conveyed their experiences and anxieties about people and cultures they encountered in a much-consumed strand of colonial discourse, that allowed the British public to imagine the remote countries they inhabited. Using research that draws on these writings from missionaries in southern Africa and India, Missionary Discourses of Difference is organised into three important themes of imperial and postcolonial scholarship and major missionary concern: family, sickness and violence. Each thematic section considers both how missionaries represented race, religion, gender and culture and how their thinking was shaped by anxieties about their own experiences. This two-pronged approach allows for a sustained interrogation of the interplay between self and other in missionary writing and probes the limits of inclusion beneath the missionary commitment to universalism.
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  • Title

    Missionary Discourses of Difference

  • Author

    E. Cleall

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Palgrave Macmillan

  • Published

    June 2012

  • Weight

    445g

  • Page Count

    256

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780230296800

  • ISBN-10

    0230296807

  • Eden Code

    4033443