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Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Cultures of Travel
Author(s): Inderpal Grewal (Author)
- Publisher: Leicester University Press
- Publication Date: 1 May 1996
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 0718500636
- ISBN-13: 9780718500634
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 and women appropriated aspects of European travel discourse, particularly the set of oppositions between self and other, East and West, home and abroad.
