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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... simply to reduce them to biographical studies of exceptional spinsters , as some critics have done . What I intend to do has more in common with Peter Hulme's work on colonial discourse : " The venture . . . is archaeological ; no ...
... simply to reduce them to biographical studies of exceptional spinsters , as some critics have done . What I intend to do has more in common with Peter Hulme's work on colonial discourse : " The venture . . . is archaeological ; no ...
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... no pre - discursive providence which disposes the world in our favour . ( Foucault , 1981b : 67 ) This remark is clearly aimed at dismissing the idea that the ' world ' has an order which we simply have 9 INTRODUCTION.
... no pre - discursive providence which disposes the world in our favour . ( Foucault , 1981b : 67 ) This remark is clearly aimed at dismissing the idea that the ' world ' has an order which we simply have 9 INTRODUCTION.
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... simply have to transcribe in writing . It thus , in some measure , distinguishes the ' world ' from the act of knowing the ' world ' . The distinctions we make when we ' read ' the world are those which society has con- structed and ...
... simply have to transcribe in writing . It thus , in some measure , distinguishes the ' world ' from the act of knowing the ' world ' . The distinctions we make when we ' read ' the world are those which society has con- structed and ...
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... simply as a feminist dimension to male theories . Showalter states that feminists should reject ' male critical theory ' since it ' keeps us dependent upon it and retards our progress in solving our own theoretical problems ...
... simply as a feminist dimension to male theories . Showalter states that feminists should reject ' male critical theory ' since it ' keeps us dependent upon it and retards our progress in solving our own theoretical problems ...
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... simply a matter of changing consciousness on an individual basis , but resistance being a necessary part of power . He sees the knowl- edge that archaeological and genealogical work can produce as a way of creating a counter - knowledge ...
... simply a matter of changing consciousness on an individual basis , but resistance being a necessary part of power . He sees the knowl- edge that archaeological and genealogical work can produce as a way of creating a counter - knowledge ...
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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