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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... discourses of femininity circulated within the late nine- teenth and early twentieth centuries , women travel writers were unable to adopt the imperialist voice with the ease with which male writers did . The writing which they produced ...
... discourses of femininity circulated within the late nine- teenth and early twentieth centuries , women travel writers were unable to adopt the imperialist voice with the ease with which male writers did . The writing which they produced ...
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... discourses of femininity : and the power of colonialism which acted upon them in relation to the people of the countries they describe in their books . It is the convergence and conflict of these two power systems which determines the ...
... discourses of femininity : and the power of colonialism which acted upon them in relation to the people of the countries they describe in their books . It is the convergence and conflict of these two power systems which determines the ...
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... discourses work out in a range of different textual strategies . The texts themselves are markedly different one ... femininity contest or comply with discursive representations of women . Secondly , I stress that these accounts ...
... discourses work out in a range of different textual strategies . The texts themselves are markedly different one ... femininity contest or comply with discursive representations of women . Secondly , I stress that these accounts ...
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... caught between the conflicting demands of the discourse of femininity and that of imperial- ism . The discourses of colonialism demand action and intrepid , fearless behaviour from the narrator , and yet the discourses 21 INTRODUCTION.
... caught between the conflicting demands of the discourse of femininity and that of imperial- ism . The discourses of colonialism demand action and intrepid , fearless behaviour from the narrator , and yet the discourses 21 INTRODUCTION.
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... discourses of femininity demand passivity from the narrator and a concern with relationships . I am concerned as much with the elements which the texts share as with the elements which distinguish them one from the other . For example ...
... discourses of femininity demand passivity from the narrator and a concern with relationships . I am concerned as much with the elements which the texts share as with the elements which distinguish them one from the other . For example ...
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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