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. To my Nan , Great Granny Anny and my mother , Barbara The World is surfeited with Male travels , all in.
An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills. To my Nan , Great Granny Anny and my mother , Barbara The World is surfeited with Male travels , all in.
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... Male travels , all in the same Tone and stuft with the same trifles , a Lady has the skill to strike out a New Path and to embellish a worn - out Subject with a variety of fresh and elegant Entertainment . ( Mary Astells , in her ...
... Male travels , all in the same Tone and stuft with the same trifles , a Lady has the skill to strike out a New Path and to embellish a worn - out Subject with a variety of fresh and elegant Entertainment . ( Mary Astells , in her ...
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... male writers did . The writing which they produced tended to be more tentative than male writing , less able to assert the ' truths ' of British rule without qualification . Because of their oppressive socialisation and marginal ...
... male writers did . The writing which they produced tended to be more tentative than male writing , less able to assert the ' truths ' of British rule without qualification . Because of their oppressive socialisation and marginal ...
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... male counterparts , in general it is not considered within critical studies of colonial discourse . Instead , the books which are written about women travellers tend to come in the form of coffee table books , with lavish illustrations ...
... male counterparts , in general it is not considered within critical studies of colonial discourse . Instead , the books which are written about women travellers tend to come in the form of coffee table books , with lavish illustrations ...
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... males . It is this attempt to both view women's travel writing in this period in relation to men's writing , but also in its own terms which makes this study so complex . Certain discursive elements are shared by both male and female ...
... males . It is this attempt to both view women's travel writing in this period in relation to men's writing , but also in its own terms which makes this study so complex . Certain discursive elements are shared by both male and female ...
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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.