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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... problems of reading the texts from a realist 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 ...
... problems of reading the texts from a realist 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 ...
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... problems of claiming scientificity and truth for her / his own statements . A number of Marxist theorists , most notably Louis Althusser , have proposed systems of knowledge whereby there is a distinction between ideology and scientific ...
... problems of claiming scientificity and truth for her / his own statements . A number of Marxist theorists , most notably Louis Althusser , have proposed systems of knowledge whereby there is a distinction between ideology and scientific ...
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... problem of having to take a theory wholesale is perhaps less marked than with other theorists , for a number of reasons . Firstly , because , as I men- tioned earlier , he explicitly questions the truth status of his own discourse ...
... problem of having to take a theory wholesale is perhaps less marked than with other theorists , for a number of reasons . Firstly , because , as I men- tioned earlier , he explicitly questions the truth status of his own discourse ...
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... problem of using male theoretical work that some Anglo - American feminists like Elaine Showalter and Dale Spender ... problems ' ( Showalter , 1982 : 183 ) . This leads Toril Moi , one of Anglo - American femin- ism's main critics ...
... problem of using male theoretical work that some Anglo - American feminists like Elaine Showalter and Dale Spender ... problems ' ( Showalter , 1982 : 183 ) . This leads Toril Moi , one of Anglo - American femin- ism's main critics ...
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... problems in France as it does in Britain : French intellectual life has had a considerable impact on French feminist thought , particularly since French femin- ists on the whole have been eager to appropriate dominant intellectual ...
... problems in France as it does in Britain : French intellectual life has had a considerable impact on French feminist thought , particularly since French femin- ists on the whole have been eager to appropriate dominant intellectual ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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.