RMMLA: 2005 Coeur d'Alene Convention Program RMMLA: Conference Abstract Display


Anna Leonowens, the King of Siam, and the White Woman’s Burden

English teacher Leonowens' 1873 autobiography about Thailand, The Romance of the Harem, reworks the conventions of gothic fiction and missionary hagiography into a colonialist Romance of the 'white woman’s burden.'

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