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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I willbe concentrating mainly onthe writingsof Britishwomen travel writers who describe their travelsto colonised countries, whichI am taking tomean broadly those countrieswhich wereunder British economic, religious or politicalcontrol, ...
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Perhapsitis besttofollow Macdonell in describing discourse inthe following way: 'Whatever signifies or has meaning can be considered part of discourse' (Macdonell,1986:4). Discourse isnot, however, ahomogeneous term whichsubsumes ...
Perhapsitis besttofollow Macdonell in describing discourse inthe following way: 'Whatever signifies or has meaning can be considered part of discourse' (Macdonell,1986:4). Discourse isnot, however, ahomogeneous term whichsubsumes ...
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In discussing theway we can describe 'reality' Foucault says: We must not imagine thatthe worldturns towardsusa legible face which wewould only haveto decipher.The world isnot the accomplice of our knowledge; there is no prediscursive ...
In discussing theway we can describe 'reality' Foucault says: We must not imagine thatthe worldturns towardsusa legible face which wewould only haveto decipher.The world isnot the accomplice of our knowledge; there is no prediscursive ...
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Forexample, Peter Hulme, usinga psychoanalytic Marxist framework, aims to 'make a text speak more than itknows' (Hulme, 1986:11–12),and this leads him to describe Christopher Columbus's diary as'a veritable palimpsest' (ibid.: 1986:18).
Forexample, Peter Hulme, usinga psychoanalytic Marxist framework, aims to 'make a text speak more than itknows' (Hulme, 1986:11–12),and this leads him to describe Christopher Columbus's diary as'a veritable palimpsest' (ibid.: 1986:18).
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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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