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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... describe their travels to colonised countries , which I am taking to mean broadly those countries which were under British economic , religious or political control , however loosely that may be defined . 1 Rather than viewing ...
... describe their travels to colonised countries , which I am taking to mean broadly those countries which were under British economic , religious or political control , however loosely that may be defined . 1 Rather than viewing ...
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... those rules , regardless of their literary or factual status ; thirdly , group- ings of texts / utterances . Perhaps it is best to follow Macdonell in describing discourse in the following way : ' Whatever 8 INTRODUCTION.
... those rules , regardless of their literary or factual status ; thirdly , group- ings of texts / utterances . Perhaps it is best to follow Macdonell in describing discourse in the following way : ' Whatever 8 INTRODUCTION.
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An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills. in describing discourse in the following way ... describe ' reality ' Foucault says : We must not imagine that the world turns towards us a legible face which we ...
An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills. in describing discourse in the following way ... describe ' reality ' Foucault says : We must not imagine that the world turns towards us a legible face which we ...
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... describe Christopher Columbus's diary as ' a veritable palimp- sest ' ( ibid .: 1986 : 18 ) . These statements imply a hermeneutic role for the colonial discourse analyst , deciphering layer after layer of meaning , and although Hulme's ...
... describe Christopher Columbus's diary as ' a veritable palimp- sest ' ( ibid .: 1986 : 18 ) . These statements imply a hermeneutic role for the colonial discourse analyst , deciphering layer after layer of meaning , and although Hulme's ...
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... describe patriarchy . If one only has a re- pressive model of patriarchy , then it is very difficult to explain how it is that so many women have managed , against the odds , to write and react against the supposed rules , thus ...
... describe patriarchy . If one only has a re- pressive model of patriarchy , then it is very difficult to explain how it is that so many women have managed , against the odds , to write and react against the supposed rules , thus ...
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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.