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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... particularly straightforward theorist to choose : a philosopher who studied the history of medical practice , the development of the prison and the discourses of sexuality and madness ; in Clifford Geertz's words , ' a non - historical ...
... particularly straightforward theorist to choose : a philosopher who studied the history of medical practice , the development of the prison and the discourses of sexuality and madness ; in Clifford Geertz's words , ' a non - historical ...
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... particularly true of the colonial and post - colonial period where what the writer ' knows ' and ' sees ' is determined through large - scale discursive constructs . In The Archeology of Knowledge , Foucault shows that when one analyses ...
... particularly true of the colonial and post - colonial period where what the writer ' knows ' and ' sees ' is determined through large - scale discursive constructs . In The Archeology of Knowledge , Foucault shows that when one analyses ...
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... particularly since French femin- ists on the whole have been eager to appropriate dominant intellectual trends for feminist purposes .... Although not entirely absent , intellectual separatism ( the desire to do without ' male ' thought ...
... particularly since French femin- ists on the whole have been eager to appropriate dominant intellectual trends for feminist purposes .... Although not entirely absent , intellectual separatism ( the desire to do without ' male ' thought ...
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... particularly useful because of his insistence on the centrality of power , especially when instantiated in knowledge . He attempts to move away from conspiracy theories , for he says : ' If power was never anything but repressive , if ...
... particularly useful because of his insistence on the centrality of power , especially when instantiated in knowledge . He attempts to move away from conspiracy theories , for he says : ' If power was never anything but repressive , if ...
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... particularly in the way in which it relates to women's lives and writing . As Paul Patton states : what distinguished this new form of political investment of the body was , firstly , the scale of control involved : this was minute , a ...
... particularly in the way in which it relates to women's lives and writing . As Paul Patton states : what distinguished this new form of political investment of the body was , firstly , the scale of control involved : this was minute , a ...
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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.