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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... statements about the race as a whole . It is in their struggle with the discourses of imperialism and femininity , neither of which they could wholeheartedly adopt , and which pulled them in different textual directions , that their ...
... statements about the race as a whole . It is in their struggle with the discourses of imperialism and femininity , neither of which they could wholeheartedly adopt , and which pulled them in different textual directions , that their ...
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... statements ( 1'enonce ) . And later in the same text , he says : The analysis of statements , then , is a historical analysis but one that avoids all interpretation ; it does not question things said as to what they are hiding , what ...
... statements ( 1'enonce ) . And later in the same text , he says : The analysis of statements , then , is a historical analysis but one that avoids all interpretation ; it does not question things said as to what they are hiding , what ...
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... statements imply a hermeneutic role for the colonial discourse analyst , deciphering layer after layer of meaning , and although Hulme's book is an extremely stylish analysis of colonial texts , both insightful and inspiring , it is ...
... statements imply a hermeneutic role for the colonial discourse analyst , deciphering layer after layer of meaning , and although Hulme's book is an extremely stylish analysis of colonial texts , both insightful and inspiring , it is ...
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... statements about a text , which you would not have been able to say without the theory . In general , feminist textual theory has restricted itself to the analysis of literary texts and has been concerned with analysis of the text in ...
... statements about a text , which you would not have been able to say without the theory . In general , feminist textual theory has restricted itself to the analysis of literary texts and has been concerned with analysis of the text in ...
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... statements of affiliation , and descriptions of relationships , which stress the interpersonal nature of travel writing , these texts constitute counter - hegemonic voices within colonial discourse . Considering travel writing in this ...
... statements of affiliation , and descriptions of relationships , which stress the interpersonal nature of travel writing , these texts constitute counter - hegemonic voices within colonial discourse . Considering travel writing in this ...
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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.