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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In this period, a new colonial relationship emerged,where formal conquest, annexation and administration became the most common relation between Britain and certain other countries, and Britain declared itself to be an imperialnation ...
In this period, a new colonial relationship emerged,where formal conquest, annexation and administration became the most common relation between Britain and certain other countries, and Britain declared itself to be an imperialnation ...
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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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marginal position in relation to imperialism, despite their generally privileged class position, women writers tended to concentrate on descriptions of peopleas individuals, rather thanonstatements about therace as awhole.
marginal position in relation to imperialism, despite their generally privileged class position, women writers tended to concentrate on descriptions of peopleas individuals, rather thanonstatements about therace as awhole.
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Thisarchaeological analysis existsina contrastive, as well asina complementary relation withmuchofthe criticism there is in this field,bothby colonial discourse theorists and feminists. 5For this purpose I have blended together the ...
Thisarchaeological analysis existsina contrastive, as well asina complementary relation withmuchofthe criticism there is in this field,bothby colonial discourse theorists and feminists. 5For this purpose I have blended together the ...
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Indeed,it maybe understood as by a standpoint taken up the discourse through its relation to another, ultimatelyan opposing discourse. (Macdonell, 1986:3) Colin Gordon reinforces this idea of discourse as heterogeneous, since.
Indeed,it maybe understood as by a standpoint taken up the discourse through its relation to another, ultimatelyan opposing discourse. (Macdonell, 1986:3) Colin Gordon reinforces this idea of discourse as heterogeneous, since.
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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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