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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... seen not to be part of the colonial expan- sion ? When I first started studying women's travel writing , I was surprised at the sheer volume of writing , especially since critics . like Worley suggest that ' very few women broke out of ...
... seen not to be part of the colonial expan- sion ? When I first started studying women's travel writing , I was surprised at the sheer volume of writing , especially since critics . like Worley suggest that ' very few women broke out of ...
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... seen to be marginal to the process of colonial- ism . A further reason why the colonial context is not con- sidered by critics is that women's writing and their involvement in colonialism was markedly different from men's ; their work ...
... seen to be marginal to the process of colonial- ism . A further reason why the colonial context is not con- sidered by critics is that women's writing and their involvement in colonialism was markedly different from men's ; their work ...
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... autobiographical ' . This labelling should be seen as an attempt to deny women the status of creators of cultural artefacts . However , the analysis is still further complicated by the fact that , whilst labelled ' 12 INTRODUCTION.
... autobiographical ' . This labelling should be seen as an attempt to deny women the status of creators of cultural artefacts . However , the analysis is still further complicated by the fact that , whilst labelled ' 12 INTRODUCTION.
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... seen as a response to disciplinary pressure , tending to exhibit a concern with displaying the ' self ' . THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK The book is divided into three main sections . In the first , I examine the way that critics have ...
... seen as a response to disciplinary pressure , tending to exhibit a concern with displaying the ' self ' . THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK The book is divided into three main sections . In the first , I examine the way that critics have ...
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... seen in Nina Mazuchelli's writing , since in her account of her travels to northern India and Bhutan she calls upon a range of discursive frameworks which are particular to the British presence and expansion in the Indian context . Each ...
... seen in Nina Mazuchelli's writing , since in her account of her travels to northern India and Bhutan she calls upon a range of discursive frameworks which are particular to the British presence and expansion in the Indian context . Each ...
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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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