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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Englishprose literature—Women authors—History and criticism.2. Women travelers in literature. 3. English prose literature—19th century—Historyand criticism.4. English prose literature—20th century—History and criticism. 5.
Englishprose literature—Women authors—History and criticism.2. Women travelers in literature. 3. English prose literature—19th century—Historyand criticism.4. English prose literature—20th century—History and criticism. 5.
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Critics such as Peter Hulme and Dennis Porter have analysed the heterogeneity in discourse structures withinthecolonial period,but they have not consideredthe waythat womenwriters had to negotiate different textual constraints (Hulme, ...
Critics such as Peter Hulme and Dennis Porter have analysed the heterogeneity in discourse structures withinthecolonial period,but they have not consideredthe waythat womenwriters had to negotiate different textual constraints (Hulme, ...
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A further reasonwhy the colonial contextisnot considered by critics isthat women's writing and theirinvolvement in colonialism was markedly different from men's; ...
A further reasonwhy the colonial contextisnot considered by critics isthat women's writing and theirinvolvement in colonialism was markedly different from men's; ...
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Theonly critics who have concerned themselves with women's travel writing have been women critics, who have usually situated themselves,atleast implicitly, withina feminist framework. The relatively unexplored nature ofthe subjectmatter ...
Theonly critics who have concerned themselves with women's travel writing have been women critics, who have usually situated themselves,atleast implicitly, withina feminist framework. The relatively unexplored nature ofthe subjectmatter ...
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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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| 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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