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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There are nowmany travel booksand anthologies of travel writing published,andthere are travel writing competitions with prestigiousprizes. This compares quite markedly to theview of travel writingtwenty yearsago, whenPaul Fussell's ...
There are nowmany travel booksand anthologies of travel writing published,andthere are travel writing competitions with prestigiousprizes. This compares quite markedly to theview of travel writingtwenty yearsago, whenPaul Fussell's ...
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For this reason, it is difficult to talk aboutFoucault inthesingular, sincethere are several positionswhich Foucault occupies. As Diane Macdonell comments: there is little to gain from a fully unified survey.
For this reason, it is difficult to talk aboutFoucault inthesingular, sincethere are several positionswhich Foucault occupies. As Diane Macdonell comments: there is little to gain from a fully unified survey.
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there is little to gain from a fully unified survey of Foucault's work...a survey which places the writing under the control of whatever is taken to be the author's final meaning. Authorism of this kind is idealist, and tocover the ...
there is little to gain from a fully unified survey of Foucault's work...a survey which places the writing under the control of whatever is taken to be the author's final meaning. Authorism of this kind is idealist, and tocover the ...
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The world isnot the accomplice of our knowledge; there is no prediscursive providence which disposes the world in our favour. (Foucault, 1981b: 67) This remarkis clearly aimedat dismissing the idea that the 'world' has an order which we ...
The world isnot the accomplice of our knowledge; there is no prediscursive providence which disposes the world in our favour. (Foucault, 1981b: 67) This remarkis clearly aimedat dismissing the idea that the 'world' has an order which we ...
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Itis in the analysis of statements thatitis possible totrace women writers' ambivalence in their position in relation topower. Secondly, Foucault's concern with the ... Foucault asserts that there is no hidden 'reality'; what is discovered.
Itis in the analysis of statements thatitis possible totrace women writers' ambivalence in their position in relation topower. Secondly, Foucault's concern with the ... Foucault asserts that there is no hidden 'reality'; what is discovered.
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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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