Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and ColonialismRoutledge, 2003 M09 2 - 240 páginas Discourses of Difference unravels the complexities of writings by British women travellers of the `high colonial' period. Sara Mills examines the relation of women travellers to colonialism, positioned as they were at the site of conflicting discourses: femininity, feminism, and patriarchal imperialism. Using feminist discourse theory, Sara Mills analyses the writings of three women travellers - Alexandra David-Neel, Mary Kingsley and Nina Mazuchelli. Her examination of agency, identity, and the contemporary social environment, is an important and inspiring step forward in post-colonial cultural and literary theory. |
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... adopt the imperialist 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 ...
... adopt the imperialist 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 ...
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... adopt a straight- forwardly colonial 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 ...
... adopt a straight- forwardly colonial 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 ...
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... adopt in this book will be less concerned with proving a point ( arguing , for example , that women's travel writing is better or worse than men's ) , but rather with exploring the possibilities of interpreting this writing within its ...
... adopt in this book will be less concerned with proving a point ( arguing , for example , that women's travel writing is better or worse than men's ) , but rather with exploring the possibilities of interpreting this writing within its ...
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... adopting a male theoretical ' guru ' . However , in search of explanations , feminists may fall under the sway of a theorist , male or female , who seems to be able to provide plausible explanations or readings . Recently , Foucault has ...
... adopting a male theoretical ' guru ' . However , in search of explanations , feminists may fall under the sway of a theorist , male or female , who seems to be able to provide plausible explanations or readings . Recently , Foucault has ...
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... adopt or oppose . This can seem for feminists like a form of infatu- ation , as Meaghan Morris has put it , like ' being screwed ' ( Morris , in Morris and Patton ( eds ) , 1979 : 148 ) , because , by adopting male theoretical work ...
... adopt or oppose . This can seem for feminists like a form of infatu- ation , as Meaghan Morris has put it , like ' being screwed ' ( Morris , in Morris and Patton ( eds ) , 1979 : 148 ) , because , by adopting male theoretical work ...
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 - 1993 |
Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills Sin vista previa disponible - 1991 |
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