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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... reader in the 1990s , the texts are a mixture of the thoroughly enjoyable ( adventure narratives depicting strong ... readers in 1987 or 1988 , 4 INTRODUCTION.
... reader in the 1990s , the texts are a mixture of the thoroughly enjoyable ( adventure narratives depicting strong ... readers in 1987 or 1988 , 4 INTRODUCTION.
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An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills. We shall read as readers in 1987 or 1988 , or with luck , 1998 , but we need not do so helplessly , merely hauling , without noticing , our own cultural baggage . That is ...
An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills. We shall read as readers in 1987 or 1988 , or with luck , 1998 , but we need not do so helplessly , merely hauling , without noticing , our own cultural baggage . That is ...
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... readers in the 1990s , will never really know what discursive elements acted on women travellers when they wrote , but this book is an attempt at an avowedly partial account . This archaeological analysis exists in a contrastive , as ...
... readers in the 1990s , will never really know what discursive elements acted on women travellers when they wrote , but this book is an attempt at an avowedly partial account . This archaeological analysis exists in a contrastive , as ...
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... reader : ' . . . is of course , free to make what he [ sic ] will of the book he has been kind enough to read . What right have I then to suggest that it should be used in one way rather than another ? ' ( Foucault , 1973b : ix ) ...
... reader : ' . . . is of course , free to make what he [ sic ] will of the book he has been kind enough to read . What right have I then to suggest that it should be used in one way rather than another ? ' ( Foucault , 1973b : ix ) ...
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... reader that the colonised country is so much under British control that even women can be represented travelling through it without the ' natives ' daring to approach her . In many ways they present the colonial countries as empty , or ...
... reader that the colonised country is so much under British control that even women can be represented travelling through it without the ' natives ' daring to approach her . In many ways they present the colonial countries as empty , or ...
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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.