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Home And Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire And The Culture Of Travel
by Inderpal Grewal (Author),
Leicester University Press (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
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. It explores the impact of this
encounter on English and Indian men and women. Looking at England, the author
draws on 19th-century aesthetics, landscape art and debates about women's
suffrage and working-class education, in order to show how all social classes,
not only the privileged, were educated and influenced by imperialist travel
narratives. By examining different forms of Indian travel to the West and
focusing on forms of modernity offered by colonial notions of travel, she
explores how Indian men
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9780718500641
Language English
Binding Paper Back
Publisher Leicester University Press
Publishing Date 1996
Total Pages 288