Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and ColonialismDiscourses of Difference unravels the complexities of writings by British women travellers of the `high colonial' period. Sara Mills examines the relation of women travellers to colonialism, positioned as they were at the site of conflicting discourses: femininity, feminism, and patriarchal imperialism. Using feminist discourse theory, Sara Mills analyses the writings of three women travellers - Alexandra David-Neel, Mary Kingsley and Nina Mazuchelli. Her examination of agency, identity, and the contemporary social environment, is an important and inspiring step forward in post-colonial cultural and literary theory. |
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Contenido
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Part I CRITICAL RESPONSES TO WOMENS TRAVEL WRITING | 25 |
Part II CONSTRAINTS ON PRODUCTION AND RECEPTION | 65 |
Part III CASE STUDIES | 121 |
NOTES | 199 |
| 213 | |
| 229 | |
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Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills Vista previa limitada - 1993 |
Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills Sin vista previa disponible - 1991 |
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism |
| Autor | Sara Mills |
| Editor | Routledge, 2003 |
| ISBN | 1134947429, 9781134947423 |
| Largo | 240 páginas |
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