The Missionary: An Indian Tale
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Book Overview
Set in seventeenth-century India, The Missionaryfocuses on the relationship between Hilarion, a Portuguese missionary to India, and Luxima, an Indian prophetess. Both are aristocratic, devoted to their religions, bound by vows of chastity, and begin the novel biased against other cultures. This Broadview Literary Texts edition also includes extensive primary source appendices that situate the novel in relation to Irish, Portuguese and Indian history, as well as to the literature of sensibility and travel writing.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1551112639
ISBN13:9781551112633
Release Date:February 2002
Publisher:Broadview Press Inc
Length:340 Pages
Weight:0.89 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
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wacky erotic colonial tale
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This book is so insanely over-the-top that I think it has been written off, but I highly recommend it. I think it was much better than Owenson's Wild Irish Girl and much more radical (in some ways) than its counterpart. An Oriental tale set in India with a Portuguese missionary and a Hindu woman-goddess, it doesn't get any better than that! Owenson's convoluted plot could be critiqued from a literary standpoint, but I think its value as a mirror of confused cultural and political values more than makes up for it.
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