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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... frameworks which the changes in the colonial situation entailed . Critics such as Peter Hulme and Dennis Porter have analysed the heterogeneity in discourse structures within the colonial period , but they have not con- sidered the way ...
... frameworks which the changes in the colonial situation entailed . Critics such as Peter Hulme and Dennis Porter have analysed the heterogeneity in discourse structures within the colonial period , but they have not con- sidered the way ...
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... frameworks and pressures . It is these frameworks which I shall map out . Because of the way that discourses of femininity circulated within the late nine- teenth and early twentieth centuries , women travel writers were unable to adopt ...
... frameworks and pressures . It is these frameworks which I shall map out . Because of the way that discourses of femininity circulated within the late nine- teenth and early twentieth centuries , women travel writers were unable to adopt ...
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... framework . - The relatively unexplored nature of the subject - matter seemed to me curious , since these texts , in their various ways , are very challenging theoretically a strange mixture of the stereotypically colonial in content ...
... framework . - The relatively unexplored nature of the subject - matter seemed to me curious , since these texts , in their various ways , are very challenging theoretically a strange mixture of the stereotypically colonial in content ...
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... frameworks . This study aims to discover the specificity of women's travel writing , and also , at the same time , the elements which it shares with men's writing . I shall argue that even when women's writing seems to consist of ...
... frameworks . This study aims to discover the specificity of women's travel writing , and also , at the same time , the elements which it shares with men's writing . I shall argue that even when women's writing seems to consist of ...
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... frameworks which exert pressure on female writers , there may be negotiations in women's texts which result in ... framework . FOUCAULT AND THE STUDY OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE In writing a book , it has become a convention to frame ...
... frameworks which exert pressure on female writers , there may be negotiations in women's texts which result in ... framework . FOUCAULT AND THE STUDY OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE In writing a book , it has become a convention to frame ...
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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.