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Home and harem : nation, gender, empire, and the cultures of travel / Inderpal Grewal.
Van Pelt Library PR756.T72 G74 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grewal, Inderpal.
- Series:
- Post-contemporary interventions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings, English.
- Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Relations.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Literature and society--India--History--19th century.
- Culture conflict in literature.
- Great Britain--Relations--India.
- India--Relations--Great Britain.
- India.
- Intercultural communication.
- East and West in literature.
- Women--Books and reading.
- Women.
- Feminism and literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Women--India--History.
- Imperialism.
- Physical Description:
- x, 286 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- This interdisciplinary study examines how the narratives and discourses of travel reveal 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. In her look at England, the author draws on 19th century aesthetics, landscape art and debates about women's suffrage and working class education to show how all social classes, not only the privileged, were educated and influenced by imperialist travel narratives. By examining diverse forms of Indian travel to the West and focusing on forms of modernity offered by colonial notions of travel, she explores how Indian men and women appropriated aspects of European travel discourse, particularly the set of oppositions between self and other, East and West, home and abroad. This work is the first to discuss Indian women travelling West as well as English women travelling East and is a truly transnational study of the interaction of ideas between cultures.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-279) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822317400
- 0822317311
- OCLC:
- 33043559
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