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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... range of seemingly objective writings about the Orient . Said's work has been continued by many others , most notably Mary Louise Pratt , Peter Hulme , Homi Bhabha , Rana Kabbani and Gayatri Spivak.2 For them , along with more clearly ...
... range of seemingly objective writings about the Orient . Said's work has been continued by many others , most notably Mary Louise Pratt , Peter Hulme , Homi Bhabha , Rana Kabbani and Gayatri Spivak.2 For them , along with more clearly ...
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... range of discursive pressures and in its reception it has frequently been labelled ' autobiographical ' . This labelling should be seen as an attempt to deny women the status of creators of cultural artefacts . However , the analysis is ...
... range of discursive pressures and in its reception it has frequently been labelled ' autobiographical ' . This labelling should be seen as an attempt to deny women the status of creators of cultural artefacts . However , the analysis is ...
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... range of writers on the Orient but he only deals with one woman writer , Gertrude Bell , despite the prevalence of women writing within the colonial context . So how can feminists use their work as a theoretical base ? This book is ...
... range of writers on the Orient but he only deals with one woman writer , Gertrude Bell , despite the prevalence of women writing within the colonial context . So how can feminists use their work as a theoretical base ? This book is ...
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... range of discourses over the last three hundred years . ( Weedon , 1987 : 13 ) However , it is not necessary to ignore male theoretical work because of this domination . Indeed , it is more appropriate to consider feminist appropriation ...
... range of discourses over the last three hundred years . ( Weedon , 1987 : 13 ) However , it is not necessary to ignore male theoretical work because of this domination . Indeed , it is more appropriate to consider feminist appropriation ...
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... range of power nexuses : the power of patriarchy which acted upon them as middle - class women , through discourses of femininity : and the power of colonialism which acted upon them in relation to the people of the countries they ...
... range of power nexuses : the power of patriarchy which acted upon them as middle - class women , through discourses of femininity : and the power of colonialism which acted upon them in relation to the people of the countries they ...
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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.