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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... position , and , secondly , from those who analyse it as part of the critical study of colonial discourse . We might ... positions of the colonial period being transposed onto British cultural forms of the 1980s and 1990s . Reading ...
... position , and , secondly , from those who analyse it as part of the critical study of colonial discourse . We might ... positions of the colonial period being transposed onto British cultural forms of the 1980s and 1990s . Reading ...
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... position in relation to imperialism , despite their generally privileged class position , women writers tended to concentrate on descriptions of people as individuals , rather than on statements about the race as a whole . It is in ...
... position in relation to imperialism , despite their generally privileged class position , women writers tended to concentrate on descriptions of people as individuals , rather than on statements about the race as a whole . It is in ...
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... position , I have tried to find alternative strategies . One of the most obvious choices is colonial discourse analysis , but it is not possible to transpose the work which has been done on colonial discourse on to these texts ...
... position , I have tried to find alternative strategies . One of the most obvious choices is colonial discourse analysis , but it is not possible to transpose the work which has been done on colonial discourse on to these texts ...
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... position of his last text , or to be classified as belonging to a school of thought , whether Marx- ism ... positions which Foucault occupies . As Diane Macdonell comments : there is little to gain from a fully unified survey of ...
... position of his last text , or to be classified as belonging to a school of thought , whether Marx- ism ... positions which Foucault occupies . As Diane Macdonell comments : there is little to gain from a fully unified survey of ...
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... positions of those who speak and those whom they address ' ( ibid .: 1 ) . One of the important elements which defines ... position does not exist by itself , however . Indeed , it may be understood as a standpoint taken up by the ...
... positions of those who speak and those whom they address ' ( ibid .: 1 ) . One of the important elements which defines ... position does not exist by itself , however . Indeed , it may be understood as a standpoint taken up by the ...
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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.