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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Página 10
... representations , and they do not depend on structures in the world . This is particularly true of the colonial and post - colonial period where what the writer ' knows ' and ' sees ' is determined through large - scale discursive ...
... representations , and they do not depend on structures in the world . This is particularly true of the colonial and post - colonial period where what the writer ' knows ' and ' sees ' is determined through large - scale discursive ...
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... representation in colonial discourse , such as that of Edward Said , Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabha . There is potential for this work to be used by feminists who are trying to resist views of women and women's writing which emanate ...
... representation in colonial discourse , such as that of Edward Said , Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabha . There is potential for this work to be used by feminists who are trying to resist views of women and women's writing which emanate ...
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... representations of women . Secondly , I stress that these accounts cannot be read simply as autobiographies , but must be read as textual constructs emanating from a range of discourses in conflict.16 I focus on three texts : Alexandra ...
... representations of women . Secondly , I stress that these accounts cannot be read simply as autobiographies , but must be read as textual constructs emanating from a range of discourses in conflict.16 I focus on three texts : Alexandra ...
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... representations . The specificity of colonial relations can be most clearly seen in Nina Mazuchelli's writing , since in her account of her travels to northern India and Bhutan she calls upon a range of discursive frameworks which are ...
... representations . The specificity of colonial relations can be most clearly seen in Nina Mazuchelli's writing , since in her account of her travels to northern India and Bhutan she calls upon a range of discursive frameworks which are ...
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... representation of the colonised country as a safe place for women to travel may have developed from precisely the problem of women writers describing sexual matters ; it would have been considered improper for a woman writer even to ...
... representation of the colonised country as a safe place for women to travel may have developed from precisely the problem of women writers describing sexual matters ; it would have been considered improper for a woman writer even to ...
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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.