Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and ColonialismPsychology Press, 1993 - 232 páginas This 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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... considered worthy of academic study . This book considers the ways in which women's writing in the colonial period might demand different theoretical tools to those developed within colonial discourse . This is the first 2 INTRODUCTION.
... considered worthy of academic study . This book considers the ways in which women's writing in the colonial period might demand different theoretical tools to those developed within colonial discourse . This is the first 2 INTRODUCTION.
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... considered within critical studies of colonial discourse . Instead , the books which are written about women travellers tend to come in the form of coffee table books , with lavish illustrations of these eccentric creatures . Certain ...
... considered within critical studies of colonial discourse . Instead , the books which are written about women travellers tend to come in the form of coffee table books , with lavish illustrations of these eccentric creatures . Certain ...
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... considered part of discourse ' ( Mac- donell , 1986 : 4 ) . Discourse is not , however , a homogeneous term which subsumes all distinctions . As Macdonell says : ' Dis- courses differ with the kinds of institutions and social practices ...
... considered part of discourse ' ( Mac- donell , 1986 : 4 ) . Discourse is not , however , a homogeneous term which subsumes all distinctions . As Macdonell says : ' Dis- courses differ with the kinds of institutions and social practices ...
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... considered ' literary ' , and to consider both their production and their reception , I show that women's travel writing is constructed within a range of discursive pressures and in its reception it has frequently been labelled ...
... considered ' literary ' , and to consider both their production and their reception , I show that women's travel writing is constructed within a range of discursive pressures and in its reception it has frequently been labelled ...
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... considered to be theories themselves.14 Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby consider that the con- vergence of Foucault's work and feminism can be productive : Both identify the body as the site of power ... both point to the local and ...
... considered to be theories themselves.14 Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby consider that the con- vergence of Foucault's work and feminism can be productive : Both identify the body as the site of power ... both point to the local and ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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.