Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and ColonialismThis book provides a useful entry into the field of travel writing from a feminist perspective which combines Foucault with postcolonialist theory. The point of departure are the narratives produced by British women who, during the mid nineteenth to early twentieth century, traveled to colonized countries. Mills locates their narratives within larger structures of both material and symbolic power to stress the importance of the articulations of travel, gender and sexuality within travel culture: women paid attention to different things than men and had different expectations of themselves and of the `natives' while abroad. Much of this is familiar ground, but it is interesting to see how the author takes well-known female accounts such as Mary Kingsley's and reads them not as eccentric products but as part of a broader discourse about gender, colonialism, and travel experience. |
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It was not until the advent of colonial dis- course as a legitimate field of research in the 1970s that travel writing began to be considered worthy of academic study . This book considers the ways in which women's writing in the ...
It was not until the advent of colonial dis- course as a legitimate field of research in the 1970s that travel writing began to be considered worthy of academic study . This book considers the ways in which women's writing in the ...
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Women's travel writing is problematic because , although it was widely read at the time of its publication , and many of the texts present a slightly different view of colonialism to male counterparts , in general it is not considered ...
Women's travel writing is problematic because , although it was widely read at the time of its publication , and many of the texts present a slightly different view of colonialism to male counterparts , in general it is not considered ...
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in describing discourse in the following way : ' Whatever signifies or has meaning can be considered part of discourse ' ( Mac- donell , 1986 : 4 ) . Discourse is not , however , a homogeneous term which subsumes all distinctions .
in describing discourse in the following way : ' Whatever signifies or has meaning can be considered part of discourse ' ( Mac- donell , 1986 : 4 ) . Discourse is not , however , a homogeneous term which subsumes all distinctions .
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In general , feminist textual theory has restricted itself to the analysis of literary texts and has been concerned with analysis of the text in itself.10 This book aims to analyse texts which are not generally considered ' literary ' ...
In general , feminist textual theory has restricted itself to the analysis of literary texts and has been concerned with analysis of the text in itself.10 This book aims to analyse texts which are not generally considered ' literary ' ...
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Indeed , it is more appropriate to consider feminist appropriation of male- and female - authored theories as constituting feminist theory , much as male appro- priations are considered to be theories ...
Indeed , it is more appropriate to consider feminist appropriation of male- and female - authored theories as constituting feminist theory , much as male appro- priations are considered to be theories ...
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I read the introduction to this when I was writing my assignment on the approach I intend to use in my research. Mills is confident and knowledgeable about how to transpose Foucault's primary ideas around power and historical curiosity into analysis of history. She is looking at this from a post-colonial, feminist perspective, I think her ideas are transferable to my own project.
One to read in full, at a later date, perhaps.
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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 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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Página 10 - I would like to show with precise examples that in analysing discourses themselves, one sees the loosening of the embrace, apparently so tight, of words and things, and the emergence of a group of rules proper to discursive practice. These rules define not the dumb existence of a reality, nor the canonical use of a vocabulary, but the ordering of objects.
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| Título | Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Literary theory gender studies |
| Autor | Sara Mills |
| Edición | ilustrada, reimpresa, revisada |
| Editor | Psychology Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0415096642, 9780415096645 |
| Largo | 232 páginas |
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