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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... Reception viii 1 27 47 3 FOUCAULT AND CONSTRAINTS ON THE PRODUCTION OF TEXT 67 4 CONSTRAINTS ON THE RECEPTION OF 108 WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING Part III Case Studies 5 ALEXANDRA DAVID - NEEL : MY JOURNEY TO 125 LHASA ( 1927 ) 6 MARY ...
... Reception viii 1 27 47 3 FOUCAULT AND CONSTRAINTS ON THE PRODUCTION OF TEXT 67 4 CONSTRAINTS ON THE RECEPTION OF 108 WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING Part III Case Studies 5 ALEXANDRA DAVID - NEEL : MY JOURNEY TO 125 LHASA ( 1927 ) 6 MARY ...
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... not a simplistic textual distinction between men's writing on the one hand and women's writing on the other , but rather a series of discursive pressures on production and reception which female writers have to 5 INTRODUCTION.
... not a simplistic textual distinction between men's writing on the one hand and women's writing on the other , but rather a series of discursive pressures on production and reception which female writers have to 5 INTRODUCTION.
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... reception of male texts , whilst at the same time , because of the discursive frameworks which exert pressure on female writers , there may be negotiations in women's texts which result in differences which seem to be due to gender . I ...
... reception of male texts , whilst at the same time , because of the discursive frameworks which exert pressure on female writers , there may be negotiations in women's texts which result in differences which seem to be due to gender . I ...
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... reception , I show that women's travel writing is constructed within a 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 ...
... reception , I show that women's travel writing is constructed within a 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 ...
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... reception ; and thirdly , the notion of discipline and the confessional . Foucault's work is particularly useful because of his insistence on the centrality of power , especially when instantiated in knowledge . He attempts to move away ...
... reception ; and thirdly , the notion of discipline and the confessional . Foucault's work is particularly useful because of his insistence on the centrality of power , especially when instantiated in knowledge . He attempts to move away ...
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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.