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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An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills. those developed within colonial discourse . This is the first book to set women travellers within the colonial context ; most writers on this subject have represented them ...
An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills. those developed within colonial discourse . This is the first book to set women travellers within the colonial context ; most writers on this subject have represented them ...
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... discourse . Instead , the books which are written about women travellers tend to come in the form of coffee ... feminine , and the lengthy descriptions of the domestic ) . It is precisely this difficulty of interpretation which ...
... discourse . Instead , the books which are written about women travellers tend to come in the form of coffee ... feminine , and the lengthy descriptions of the domestic ) . It is precisely this difficulty of interpretation which ...
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... feminine ' ( Bartky , 1988 : 64 ) . Said discusses a wide range of writers on the Orient but he only deals with one woman writer , Gertrude Bell , despite the prevalence of women writing within the colonial context . So how can ...
... feminine ' ( Bartky , 1988 : 64 ) . Said discusses a wide range of writers on the Orient but he only deals with one woman writer , Gertrude Bell , despite the prevalence of women writing within the colonial context . So how can ...
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... women ' ( ibid .: 3 ) . Within a Fou- cauldian framework , it is possible to see patriarchy as a system without intentions as a whole , which is supported by , resisted , given into or passively gone along with by both males and females ...
... women ' ( ibid .: 3 ) . Within a Fou- cauldian framework , it is possible to see patriarchy as a system without intentions as a whole , which is supported by , resisted , given into or passively gone along with by both males and females ...
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... women's travel writing . In the third section , I take a number of case studies to examine the way in which these discourses work out in a range of different textual strategies . The texts themselves are markedly different one from ...
... women's travel writing . In the third section , I take a number of case studies to examine the way in which these discourses work out in a range of different textual strategies . The texts themselves are markedly different one from ...
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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.