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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... firstly , from those who read travel writing from a fairly uncritical political position , and , secondly , from those who analyse it as part of the critical study of colonial discourse . We might see the former group as belonging to a ...
... firstly , from those who read travel writing from a fairly uncritical political position , and , secondly , from those who analyse it as part of the critical study of colonial discourse . We might see the former group as belonging to a ...
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... Firstly , the notion of discourse plays an important role in much work on colonial writing . With such texts , it is especially important to formulate the notion of a general group of shared characteristics . Edward Said , drawing on ...
... Firstly , the notion of discourse plays an important role in much work on colonial writing . With such texts , it is especially important to formulate the notion of a general group of shared characteristics . Edward Said , drawing on ...
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... Firstly , because , as I men- tioned earlier , he explicitly questions the truth status of his own discourse repeatedly and alludes to the ways in which his position is not consistent . Secondly , he says that he does not want people to ...
... Firstly , because , as I men- tioned earlier , he explicitly questions the truth status of his own discourse repeatedly and alludes to the ways in which his position is not consistent . Secondly , he says that he does not want people to ...
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... firstly , the notion of power and knowledge ; secondly , the way that discourses structure textual production and reception ; and thirdly , the notion of discipline and the confessional . Foucault's work is particularly useful because ...
... firstly , the notion of power and knowledge ; secondly , the way that discourses structure textual production and reception ; and thirdly , the notion of discipline and the confessional . Foucault's work is particularly useful because ...
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... firstly , the scale of control involved : this was minute , a matter of treating the body not as an undiffer- entiated unit , but of working on it in detail at the level of its individual movements and gestures . ( Patton , in Morris ...
... firstly , the scale of control involved : this was minute , a matter of treating the body not as an undiffer- entiated unit , but of working on it in detail at the level of its individual movements and gestures . ( Patton , in Morris ...
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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.