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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... GENDER AND THE STUDY OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE Part II Constraints on Production and Reception viii 1 27 47 3 FOUCAULT AND CONSTRAINTS ON THE PRODUCTION OF TEXT 67 4 CONSTRAINTS ON THE RECEPTION OF 108 WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING Part III Case ...
... GENDER AND THE STUDY OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE Part II Constraints on Production and Reception viii 1 27 47 3 FOUCAULT AND CONSTRAINTS ON THE PRODUCTION OF TEXT 67 4 CONSTRAINTS ON THE RECEPTION OF 108 WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING Part III Case ...
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... gender . I want to take these texts seriously , not simply to reduce them to biographical studies of exceptional spinsters , as some critics have done . What I intend to do has more in common with Peter Hulme's work on colonial ...
... gender . I want to take these texts seriously , not simply to reduce them to biographical studies of exceptional spinsters , as some critics have done . What I intend to do has more in common with Peter Hulme's work on colonial ...
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... gender , and he certainly does not produce ' readings ' of texts . However , Foucault's work poses questions which are of relevance to any study that involves an analysis of discourses and power . And furthermore , Foucauldian analyses ...
... gender , and he certainly does not produce ' readings ' of texts . However , Foucault's work poses questions which are of relevance to any study that involves an analysis of discourses and power . And furthermore , Foucauldian analyses ...
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... gender relations which have struc- tured women's absence from the active production of most theory within a whole range of discourses over the last three hundred years . ( Weedon , 1987 : 13 ) However , it is not necessary to ignore ...
... gender relations which have struc- tured women's absence from the active production of most theory within a whole range of discourses over the last three hundred years . ( Weedon , 1987 : 13 ) However , it is not necessary to ignore ...
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... gender , race , generation and so on - were constantly being pro- duced anew within different and competing discourses , and that they were therefore more fluid and shifting than had previously been assumed . ( Carter , in Haug ( ed ...
... gender , race , generation and so on - were constantly being pro- duced anew within different and competing discourses , and that they were therefore more fluid and shifting than had previously been assumed . ( Carter , in Haug ( ed ...
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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.