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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... structures within the colonial period , but they have not con- sidered the way that women writers had to negotiate different textual constraints ( Hulme , 1986 ; D. Porter , 1982 ) . The period of 1850-1930 is the one where British ...
... structures within the colonial period , but they have not con- sidered the way that women writers had to negotiate different textual constraints ( Hulme , 1986 ; D. Porter , 1982 ) . The period of 1850-1930 is the one where British ...
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... structure of a wide range of seemingly objective writings about the Orient . Said's work has been continued by ... structures which would normally be undertaken on ' literary ' texts . It was not until the advent of colonial dis ...
... structure of a wide range of seemingly objective writings about the Orient . Said's work has been continued by ... structures which would normally be undertaken on ' literary ' texts . It was not until the advent of colonial dis ...
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... structures , has to be ignored . In the colonial context , British women were only allowed to figure as symbols of home and purity ; women as active participants can barely be conceived of . This is because of social conventions for ...
... structures , has to be ignored . In the colonial context , British women were only allowed to figure as symbols of home and purity ; women as active participants can barely be conceived of . This is because of social conventions for ...
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... structures with which the author negotiates . Within the study of colonial discourse , which poses itself as referring to ' reality ' , as telling the ' truth ' about other countries , the notion of discourse can be useful . In ...
... structures with which the author negotiates . Within the study of colonial discourse , which poses itself as referring to ' reality ' , as telling the ' truth ' about other countries , the notion of discourse can be useful . In ...
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... 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 constructs . In The Archeology of Knowledge ...
... 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 constructs . In The Archeology of Knowledge ...
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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.