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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This is because of social conventions for conceptualising imperialism , which seem to be as much about constructing masculine British identity as constructing a national identity per se . For this reason , women as individuals and as ...
This is because of social conventions for conceptualising imperialism , which seem to be as much about constructing masculine British identity as constructing a national identity per se . For this reason , women as individuals and as ...
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I shall argue that even when women's writing seems to consist of similar elements to men's , it is judged and categorised differently . Thus , the difference is not a simplistic textual distinction between men's writing on the one hand ...
I shall argue that even when women's writing seems to consist of similar elements to men's , it is judged and categorised differently . Thus , the difference is not a simplistic textual distinction between men's writing on the one hand ...
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... 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 .
... 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 .
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This question is especially pertinent in the case of Foucault , who does not seem a particularly straightforward theorist to choose : a philosopher who studied the history of medical practice , the development of the prison and the ...
This question is especially pertinent in the case of Foucault , who does not seem a particularly straightforward theorist to choose : a philosopher who studied the history of medical practice , the development of the prison and the ...
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To me , these colonial texts seem to be all surface.9 Thirdly , in this context , it is important to draw on the work of a theorist who is aware of the problems of claiming scientificity and truth for her / his own statements .
To me , these colonial texts seem to be all surface.9 Thirdly , in this context , it is important to draw on the work of a theorist who is aware of the problems of claiming scientificity and truth for her / his own statements .
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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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