Mobility, Gender and Empire in Maria Graham's Journal of a Residence in India (1812).
This article focuses on Maria Graham’s Journal of a Residence in India (1812) in order to examine the role of mobility in the configuration of difference in the British Empire at the turn of the nineteenth century. It shows how Graham’s reading and representation of bodies in India as frenetically a...
| Publicado en: | Gender & History Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 273 - 292 |
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