Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and ColonialismThis 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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For this reason , women as individuals and as writers are always seen to be marginal to the process of colonial- ism . A further reason why the colonial context is not con- sidered by critics is that women's writing and their ...
For this reason , women as individuals and as writers are always seen to be marginal to the process of colonial- ism . A further reason why the colonial context is not con- sidered by critics is that women's writing and their ...
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For this reason , it is difficult to talk about Foucault in the singular , since there are several positions which Foucault occupies . As Diane Macdonell comments : there is little to gain from a fully unified survey of Foucault's work ...
For this reason , it is difficult to talk about Foucault in the singular , since there are several positions which Foucault occupies . As Diane Macdonell comments : there is little to gain from a fully unified survey of Foucault's work ...
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For this reason , I will be using Foucault's work very much in the manner that he suggests that readers do , as a ' tool - box ' and not as totalising theory , able to explain everything , but rather as a fragmentary theory which is ...
For this reason , I will be using Foucault's work very much in the manner that he suggests that readers do , as a ' tool - box ' and not as totalising theory , able to explain everything , but rather as a fragmentary theory which is ...
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He says : The notion of ideology appears to me to be difficult to use for three reasons . The first is that , whether one wants it to be or not , it is always in virtual opposition to something like the truth .
He says : The notion of ideology appears to me to be difficult to use for three reasons . The first is that , whether one wants it to be or not , it is always in virtual opposition to something like the truth .
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12 With Foucault the 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 ...
12 With Foucault the 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 ...
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11/05/20
I read the introduction to this when I was writing my assignment on the approach I intend to use in my research. Mills is confident and knowledgeable about how to transpose Foucault's primary ideas around power and historical curiosity into analysis of history. She is looking at this from a post-colonial, feminist perspective, I think her ideas are transferable to my own project.
One to read in full, at a later date, perhaps.
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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.
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| Título | Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Literary theory gender studies |
| Autor | Sara Mills |
| Edición | ilustrada, reimpresa, revisada |
| Editor | Psychology Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0415096642, 9780415096645 |
| Largo | 232 páginas |
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