The Missionary: An Indian Tale

by Sydney Owenson Morgan and Lady Morgan

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551112639
• ISBN13: 9781551112633
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

wacky erotic colonial tale

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.