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The Missionary: An Indian Tale (Broadview Literary Texts) | 
 enlarge | Author: Sydney Owenson
Creator: Julia M. Wright
Publisher: Broadview Press
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1243708
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 340
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1551112639
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.7
EAN: 9781551112633
ASIN: 1551112639
Publication Date: February 5, 2002
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Product Description
Set in seventeenth-century India, The Missionary focuses 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.
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wacky erotic colonial tale March 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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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