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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... suggest that ' very few women broke out of the domestic circle in the nineteenth century to venture into the wider world as self - acknowledged travellers ' ( Worley , 1986 : 40 ) . In contrast to Worley's view , my study revealed many 1 ...
... suggest that ' very few women broke out of the domestic circle in the nineteenth century to venture into the wider world as self - acknowledged travellers ' ( Worley , 1986 : 40 ) . In contrast to Worley's view , my study revealed many 1 ...
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... suggests that our task when reading texts from the past is to : receive the same fullness of resource from past texts as from present ... respect their difference . . . revive those shifty significations which do not pay court to our ...
... suggests that our task when reading texts from the past is to : receive the same fullness of resource from past texts as from present ... respect their difference . . . revive those shifty significations which do not pay court to our ...
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... suggests ; rather I am interested in the way that Foucault's theories , colonial discourse and feminist theories can interact to produce an analytical framework . FOUCAULT AND THE STUDY OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE In writing a book , it has ...
... suggests ; rather I am interested in the way that Foucault's theories , colonial discourse and feminist theories can interact to produce an analytical framework . FOUCAULT AND THE STUDY OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE In writing a book , it has ...
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... suggests that readers do , as a ' tool - box ' and not as totalising theory , able to explain everything , but rather as a fragmentary theory which is descriptive of changing contexts , and therefore subject itself to change and re ...
... suggests that readers do , as a ' tool - box ' and not as totalising theory , able to explain everything , but rather as a fragmentary theory which is descriptive of changing contexts , and therefore subject itself to change and re ...
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... suggest . Nevertheless , it is often difficult to find a theory which will enable you to make interest- ing and insightful statements about a text , which you would not have been able to say without the theory . In general , feminist ...
... suggest . Nevertheless , it is often difficult to find a theory which will enable you to make interest- ing and insightful statements about a text , which you would not have been able to say without the theory . In general , feminist ...
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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.