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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... colonialism as a unified phenomenon , I concentrate on the differences of discursive frameworks which the changes in the colonial situation entailed . Critics such as Peter Hulme and Dennis Porter have analysed the heterogeneity in ...
... colonialism as a unified phenomenon , I concentrate on the differences of discursive frameworks which the changes in the colonial situation entailed . Critics such as Peter Hulme and Dennis Porter have analysed the heterogeneity in ...
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... the critical study of colonial discourse . We might see the former group as belonging to a larger - scale ' Raj revival ' which permeates cultural production in Britain at present , with images and ideological positions of the colonial ...
... the critical study of colonial discourse . We might see the former group as belonging to a larger - scale ' Raj revival ' which permeates cultural production in Britain at present , with images and ideological positions of the colonial ...
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... the social conventions of the Victorian period , who were exceptional in managing to escape the system of chaperonage . Their role within the colonial period is often strenuously avoided , as if , in order to read the texts as accounts ...
... the social conventions of the Victorian period , who were exceptional in managing to escape the system of chaperonage . Their role within the colonial period is often strenuously avoided , as if , in order to read the texts as accounts ...
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... the work which has been done on colonial discourse on to these texts . Although this work is theoretically more attractive than some of the biographical readings of the texts , the way that the writing of the colonial period is ...
... the work which has been done on colonial discourse on to these texts . Although this work is theoretically more attractive than some of the biographical readings of the texts , the way that the writing of the colonial period is ...
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... The distinctions we make when we ' read ' the world are those which society has con- structed and instilled in us through representations , and they do not depend on structures in the world . This is particularly true of the colonial ...
... The distinctions we make when we ' read ' the world are those which society has con- structed and instilled in us through representations , and they do not depend on structures in the world . This is particularly true of the colonial ...
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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