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Missionary Discourses of Difference

Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900

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  • © 2012

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Authors:
  1. Esme Cleall

    1. University of Sheffield, UK

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Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Difference and Discourse in the British Empire

    1. Introduction: Difference and Discourse in the British Empire

      • Esme Cleall
      Pages 1-24

  3. Families and Households: Difference and Domesticity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-27
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    2. Representing Homes: Gender and Sexuality in Missionary Writing

      • Esme Cleall
      Pages 29-47

    3. Re-Making Homes: Ambiguous Encounters and Domestic Transgressions

      • Esme Cleall
      Pages 48-73

  5. Violence and Racialisation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-122
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    2. Violence and the Construction of the Other

      • Esme Cleall
      Pages 123-141

    3. Colonial Violence: Whiteness, Violence and Civilisation

      • Esme Cleall
      Pages 142-161

  6. Conclusion: Thinking with Missionaries, Thinking about Difference

    1. Conclusion: Thinking with Missionaries, Thinking about Difference

      • Esme Cleall
      Pages 162-170

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 171-243
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About this book

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.

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  • University of Sheffield, UK

    Esme Cleall

About the author

ESME CLEALL studied at the University of Sheffield, UK, before completing a PhD at UCL. She currently teaches Modern History at the University of Liverpool. Her research is on the social and cultural history of Britain and its Empire and the intersections between 'race', 'gender' and 'disability' in colonial thought. Her new project investigates nineteenth-century understandings of deafness.

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