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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... say : ' Foucault's work does not form a system ' , it is not a consistent theory ' and ' it is a patchwork of studies which . . . may produce something resembling a pattern , but in which no single rule governs the move from one piece ...
... say : ' Foucault's work does not form a system ' , it is not a consistent theory ' and ' it is a patchwork of studies which . . . may produce something resembling a pattern , but in which no single rule governs the move from one piece ...
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... says about the discourse he terms ' Orientalism ' , i.e. , works written by westerners about the Orient : My contention is that without examining Orientalism as discourse one cannot possibly understand the enormously systematic ...
... says about the discourse he terms ' Orientalism ' , i.e. , works written by westerners about the Orient : My contention is that without examining Orientalism as discourse one cannot possibly understand the enormously systematic ...
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... says : ' Dis- courses differ with the kinds of institutions and social practices in which they take shape , and with the positions of those who speak and those whom they address ' ( ibid .: 1 ) . One of the important elements which ...
... says : ' Dis- courses differ with the kinds of institutions and social practices in which they take shape , and with the positions of those who speak and those whom they address ' ( ibid .: 1 ) . One of the important elements which ...
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... says : The analysis of statements , then , is a historical analysis but one that avoids all interpretation ; it does not question things said as to what they are hiding , what they were ' really ' saying , in spite of themselves , the ...
... says : The analysis of statements , then , is a historical analysis but one that avoids all interpretation ; it does not question things said as to what they are hiding , what they were ' really ' saying , in spite of themselves , the ...
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... says : The notion of ideology appears to me to be difficult to use for three reasons . The first is that , whether one wants it to be or not , it is always in virtual opposition to something like the truth . . . . The second ...
... says : The notion of ideology appears to me to be difficult to use for three reasons . The first is that , whether one wants it to be or not , it is always in virtual opposition to something like the truth . . . . The second ...
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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