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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Thewriting whichthey produced tended tobemore tentative than malewriting, less ableto assertthe 'truths' of Britishrule without qualification. Because of their oppressive socialisation and marginal position in relation to imperialism, ...
Thewriting whichthey produced tended tobemore tentative than malewriting, less ableto assertthe 'truths' of Britishrule without qualification. Because of their oppressive socialisation and marginal position in relation to imperialism, ...
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(Beer, 1989:67) In the desire to produce a coherent reading of the texts, many critics imposea schema of reading, wherebymany partsof the text have tobe leftout of the account.Beer suggests thatour task when reading texts from thepast ...
(Beer, 1989:67) In the desire to produce a coherent reading of the texts, many critics imposea schema of reading, wherebymany partsof the text have tobe leftout of the account.Beer suggests thatour task when reading texts from thepast ...
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Rather I will be arguing that women's travel texts are produced and received within acontext whichshares similarities withthe discursive construction andreception ofmaletexts, whilstat the sametime, becauseofthe discursiveframeworks ...
Rather I will be arguing that women's travel texts are produced and received within acontext whichshares similarities withthe discursive construction andreception ofmaletexts, whilstat the sametime, becauseofthe discursiveframeworks ...
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... of MichelFoucault is theoretically problematic; asMeaghan MorrisandPaul Pattonsay: 'Foucault's workdoesnot formasystem',it is'nota consistent theory' and'itisa patchworkof studies which...may produce somethingresembling apattern, ...
... of MichelFoucault is theoretically problematic; asMeaghan MorrisandPaul Pattonsay: 'Foucault's workdoesnot formasystem',it is'nota consistent theory' and'itisa patchworkof studies which...may produce somethingresembling apattern, ...
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My contention is that without examining Orientalism as discourse one cannot possibly understand the enormously systematic discipline bywhich European culture was ableto manage—even to produce—the Orient politically, sociologically, ...
My contention is that without examining Orientalism as discourse one cannot possibly understand the enormously systematic discipline bywhich European culture was ableto manage—even to produce—the Orient politically, sociologically, ...
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