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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... textual constraints ( Hulme , 1986 ; D. Porter , 1982 ) . The period of 1850-1930 is the one where British colonial interests in other nations were made most apparent ; but how was this colonial strength negotiated in texts by women who ...
... textual constraints ( Hulme , 1986 ; D. Porter , 1982 ) . The period of 1850-1930 is the one where British colonial interests in other nations were made most apparent ; but how was this colonial strength negotiated in texts by women who ...
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... textual directions , that their writing exposes the unsteady foundations on which it is based . Their textual unease is labelled as ' bad writing ' ; for example , Paul Fussell explicitly refuses to consider women travel writers within ...
... textual directions , that their writing exposes the unsteady foundations on which it is based . Their textual unease is labelled as ' bad writing ' ; for example , Paul Fussell explicitly refuses to consider women travel writers within ...
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... textual artefacts , but rather as simple autobiographies . The only critics who have concerned themselves with women's travel writing have been women critics , who have usually situated themselves , at least implicitly , within a ...
... textual artefacts , but rather as simple autobiographies . The only critics who have concerned themselves with women's travel writing have been women critics , who have usually situated themselves , at least implicitly , within a ...
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... difference is not a simplistic textual distinction between men's writing on the one hand and women's writing on the other , but rather a series of discursive pressures on production and reception which female writers have to 5 INTRODUCTION.
... difference is not a simplistic textual distinction between men's writing on the one hand and women's writing on the other , but rather a series of discursive pressures on production and reception which female writers have to 5 INTRODUCTION.
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... textual theory has restricted itself to the analysis of literary texts and has been concerned with analysis of the text in itself.10 This book aims to analyse texts which are not generally considered ' literary ' , and to consider both ...
... textual theory has restricted itself to the analysis of literary texts and has been concerned with analysis of the text in itself.10 This book aims to analyse texts which are not generally considered ' literary ' , and to consider both ...
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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.