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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... difficulty of interpretation which I find of interest . As a feminist , one easy option is to read the texts as proto - feminist , a strategy encouraged by the fact that many of them have been reissued by Virago . By judicious quotation ...
... difficulty of interpretation which I find of interest . As a feminist , one easy option is to read the texts as proto - feminist , a strategy encouraged by the fact that many of them have been reissued by Virago . By judicious quotation ...
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... difficult to understand what relevance Foucault might have for a feminist analysis of women's travel writing since he rarely addresses the question of gender , and he certainly does not produce ' readings ' of texts . However ...
... difficult to understand what relevance Foucault might have for a feminist analysis of women's travel writing since he rarely addresses the question of gender , and he certainly does not produce ' readings ' of texts . However ...
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... difficult to use for three reasons . The first is that , whether one wants it to be or not , it is always in virtual opposition to something like the truth . . . . The second inconvenience is that it refers , necessarily I believe , to ...
... difficult to use for three reasons . The first is that , whether one wants it to be or not , it is always in virtual opposition to something like the truth . . . . The second inconvenience is that it refers , necessarily I believe , to ...
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... difficult to find a theory which will enable you to make interest- ing and insightful statements about a text , which you would not have been able to say without the theory . In general , feminist textual theory has restricted itself to ...
... difficult to find a theory which will enable you to make interest- ing and insightful statements about a text , which you would not have been able to say without the theory . In general , feminist textual theory has restricted itself to ...
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... difficult to explain how it is that so many women have managed , against the odds , to write and react against the supposed rules , thus transforming those rules . In this repressive model , Foucault notes that : power is conceived as a ...
... difficult to explain how it is that so many women have managed , against the odds , to write and react against the supposed rules , thus transforming those rules . In this repressive model , Foucault notes that : power is conceived as a ...
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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.