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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... constructing masculine British identity as constructing a national identity per se . For this reason , women as individuals and as writers are always seen to be marginal to the process of colonial- ism . A further reason why the ...
... constructing masculine British identity as constructing a national identity per se . For this reason , women as individuals and as writers are always seen to be marginal to the process of colonial- ism . A further reason why the ...
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... constructing an archaeology of these texts , we , as readers in the 1990s , will never really know what discursive elements acted on women travellers when they wrote , but this book is an attempt at an avowedly partial account . This ...
... constructing an archaeology of these texts , we , as readers in the 1990s , will never really know what discursive elements acted on women travellers when they wrote , but this book is an attempt at an avowedly partial account . This ...
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... constructed within a range of discursive pressures and in its reception it has frequently been labelled ' autobiographical ' . This labelling should be seen as an attempt to deny women the status of creators of cultural artefacts ...
... constructed within a range of discursive pressures and in its reception it has frequently been labelled ' autobiographical ' . This labelling should be seen as an attempt to deny women the status of creators of cultural artefacts ...
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... construct the discursive formation within which we are working , the work of male theorists cannot be ignored ( Moi , 1989 ) . Instead , feminists must use males ' theories and adapt them , reformulating them in the light of feminist ...
... construct the discursive formation within which we are working , the work of male theorists cannot be ignored ( Moi , 1989 ) . Instead , feminists must use males ' theories and adapt them , reformulating them in the light of feminist ...
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... constructed on the basis of ' wills ' ( individual or collective ) , no more than it is derived from interests .. .. This is not to say that power is independent , or that it could be deciphered outside of the economic process and the ...
... constructed on the basis of ' wills ' ( individual or collective ) , no more than it is derived from interests .. .. This is not to say that power is independent , or that it could be deciphered outside of the economic process and the ...
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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.