Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Cultures of Travel

Inderpal Grewal

Published by Duke University Press 1996

Home and Harem

Nation, Gender, Empire and the Cultures of Travel

Inderpal Grewal
Edited by: Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson

In the series Post-Contemporary Interventions

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822382003

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About this book

Moving across academic disciplines, geographical boundaries, and literary genres, Home and Harem examines how travel shaped ideas about culture and nation in nineteenth-century imperialist England and colonial India. Inderpal Grewal’s study of the narratives and discourses of travel reveals 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. Reworking colonial discourse studies to include both sides of the colonial divide, this work is also the first to discuss Indian women traveling West as well as English women touring the East.
In her look at England, Grewal draws on nineteenth-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 its colonies and focusing on forms of modernity offered by colonial notions of travel, she explores how Indian men and women adopted and appropriated aspects of European travel discourse, particularly the set of oppositions between self and other, East and West, home and abroad.
Rather than being simply comparative, Home and Harem is a transnational cultural study of the interaction of ideas between two cultures. Addressing theoretical and methodological developments across a wide range of fields, this highly interdisciplinary work will interest scholars in the fields of postcolonial and cultural studies, feminist studies, English literature, South Asian studies, and comparative literature.

Author / Editor information

Inderpal Grewal is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at San Francisco State University.

Reviews

“A stunning account of the complex interactions between England and India, the women’s movements and imperialism in the former and the anti-imperialist (and often anti-feminist) nationalist movements of the latter.”—Mary N. Layoun, University of Wisconsin at Madison

“Delineating the complex effects of nineteenth-century colonialism on travel practices along empire, nation, class, and gender lines, Home and Harem is a breakthrough for interdisciplinary feminist scholarship.”—Ella Shohat, City University of New York

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I English Imperial Culture
1. Home and Harem: Domesticity, Gender, and Nationalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. Empire and the Movement for Women's Suffrage in Britain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
3. The Guidebook and the Museum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
PART II Euroimperial Trayel and Indian Women
4. The Culture of Travel and the Gendering of Colonial Modernity in Nineteenth- Century India Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
5. Pandita Ramabai and Parvati Athavale: Homes for Women, Feminism, and Nationalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
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Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 296

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Published: March 14, 1996
ISBN: 9780822382003