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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... voice with the ease with which male writers did . The writing which they produced tended to be more tentative than male writing , less able to assert the ' truths ' of British rule without qualification . Because of their oppressive ...
... voice with the ease with which male writers did . The writing which they produced tended to be more tentative than male writing , less able to assert the ' truths ' of British rule without qualification . Because of their oppressive ...
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... voice . For a feminist reader in the 1990s , the texts are a mixture of the thoroughly enjoyable ( adventure narratives depicting strong , resourceful , women characters in situations rarely found in literature of the period ) and the ...
... voice . For a feminist reader in the 1990s , the texts are a mixture of the thoroughly enjoyable ( adventure narratives depicting strong , resourceful , women characters in situations rarely found in literature of the period ) and the ...
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... voices of women , children , homosexuals , perverts , but the voice of power as it institutionalises , domesticates and suppresses those very dis- courses by which it shores itself up ' ( Bartkowski , 1988 : 45 ) . In describing ...
... voices of women , children , homosexuals , perverts , but the voice of power as it institutionalises , domesticates and suppresses those very dis- courses by which it shores itself up ' ( Bartkowski , 1988 : 45 ) . In describing ...
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... voice . I demonstrate that these two factors result from women writers ' problematic status , caught between the conflicting demands of the discourse of femininity and that of imperial- ism . The discourses of colonialism demand action ...
... voice . I demonstrate that these two factors result from women writers ' problematic status , caught between the conflicting demands of the discourse of femininity and that of imperial- ism . The discourses of colonialism demand action ...
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... 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 way enables 222 INTRODUCTION.
... 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 way enables 222 INTRODUCTION.
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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.