Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and ColonialismDiscourses 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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Firstly,the notion of discourse plays an important role inmuch work on colonial writing. Withsuch texts,itis especially important to formulate the notionof a general group ofshared characteristics. Edward Said, drawing onFoucault's work ...
Firstly,the notion of discourse plays an important role inmuch work on colonial writing. Withsuch texts,itis especially important to formulate the notionof a general group ofshared characteristics. Edward Said, drawing onFoucault's work ...
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Withinthestudy of colonial discourse, which poses itselfas referringto 'reality', astellingthe 'truth' about other countries, the notion of discourse can beuseful.In discussing theway we can describe 'reality' Foucault says: We must not ...
Withinthestudy of colonial discourse, which poses itselfas referringto 'reality', astellingthe 'truth' about other countries, the notion of discourse can beuseful.In discussing theway we can describe 'reality' Foucault says: We must not ...
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Secondly, Foucault's concern with the surface of discourse is also important: he is not concerned with the hidden meaning ofthe text, since for him this type of hermeneutic impulse is based on the notion of an illusory truth which ...
Secondly, Foucault's concern with the surface of discourse is also important: he is not concerned with the hidden meaning ofthe text, since for him this type of hermeneutic impulse is based on the notion of an illusory truth which ...
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He says: The notion of ideology appears tometobe difficult tousefor three reasons.The firstis that,whether onewants itto beornot,itis always invirtual oppositionto something like thetruth.... The second inconvenience isthat it refers, ...
He says: The notion of ideology appears tometobe difficult tousefor three reasons.The firstis that,whether onewants itto beornot,itis always invirtual oppositionto something like thetruth.... The second inconvenience isthat it refers, ...
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(Foucault, in Morris and Patton (eds), 1979:54) This notion of resistance is important here; many theories of patriarchyareso formulated that there isnowayof explaininghow resistancecancome about. For Foucault,it isnot simplyamatter of ...
(Foucault, in Morris and Patton (eds), 1979:54) This notion of resistance is important here; many theories of patriarchyareso formulated that there isnowayof explaininghow resistancecancome about. For Foucault,it isnot simplyamatter of ...
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| Título | Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism |
| Autor | Sara Mills |
| Editor | Routledge, 2003 |
| ISBN | 1134947410, 9781134947416 |
| Largo | 240 páginas |
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