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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... individuals struggling against the social conventions of the Victorian period , who were exceptional in managing to escape ... individual women's lives , the colonial material , i.e. , that which links their accounts to larger discursive ...
... individuals struggling against the social conventions of the Victorian period , who were exceptional in managing to escape ... individual women's lives , the colonial material , i.e. , that which links their accounts to larger discursive ...
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... individual agents ( the authors of utterances ) or to a supra - individual teleology of discovery and intellectual evolution ( the truth of utterances ) ' ( C. Gordon , 1979 : 34 ) . Thus , it is not necessary to read travel writing as ...
... individual agents ( the authors of utterances ) or to a supra - individual teleology of discovery and intellectual evolution ( the truth of utterances ) ' ( C. Gordon , 1979 : 34 ) . Thus , it is not necessary to read travel writing as ...
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... individual basis , but resistance being a necessary part of power . He sees the knowl- edge that archaeological and genealogical work can produce as a way of creating a counter - knowledge , what Michel Pecheux calls a ' counter ...
... individual basis , but resistance being a necessary part of power . He sees the knowl- edge that archaeological and genealogical work can produce as a way of creating a counter - knowledge , what Michel Pecheux calls a ' counter ...
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... individual men or 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 ...
... individual men or 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 ...
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... individual movements and gestures . ( Patton , in Morris and Patton ( eds ) , 1979 : 121 ) This change manifested itself , at least in part , in the confes- sional , as Foucault notes : ' The Christian West invented this astonishing ...
... individual movements and gestures . ( Patton , in Morris and Patton ( eds ) , 1979 : 121 ) This change manifested itself , at least in part , in the confes- sional , as Foucault notes : ' The Christian West invented this astonishing ...
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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.