Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and ColonialismPsychology Press, 1993 - 232 páginas This book provides a useful entry into the field of travel writing from a feminist perspective which combines Foucault with postcolonialist theory. The point of departure are the narratives produced by British women who, during the mid nineteenth to early twentieth century, traveled to colonized countries. Mills locates their narratives within larger structures of both material and symbolic power to stress the importance of the articulations of travel, gender and sexuality within travel culture: women paid attention to different things than men and had different expectations of themselves and of the `natives' while abroad. Much of this is familiar ground, but it is interesting to see how the author takes well-known female accounts such as Mary Kingsley's and reads them not as eccentric products but as part of a broader discourse about gender, colonialism, and travel experience. |
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An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills. pressures on production and reception which female writers have to negotiate , in very different ways to males . It is this attempt to both view women's travel writing in ...
An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills. pressures on production and reception which female writers have to negotiate , in very different ways to males . It is this attempt to both view women's travel writing in ...
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... analysis of women's travel writing since he rarely addresses the question of gender , and he certainly does not ... analysis of discourses and power . And furthermore , Foucauldian analyses embody a certain productive scepticism which is ...
... analysis of women's travel writing since he rarely addresses the question of gender , and he certainly does not ... analysis of discourses and power . And furthermore , Foucauldian analyses embody a certain productive scepticism which is ...
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... 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 unspoken ...
... 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 unspoken ...
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... analysis posits a level of ' reality ' which is hidden from most people , but to which it has access through analysis . Foucault asserts that there is no hidden ' reality ' ; what is dis- covered beneath the primary interpretation is ...
... analysis posits a level of ' reality ' which is hidden from most people , but to which it has access through analysis . Foucault asserts that there is no hidden ' reality ' ; what is dis- covered beneath the primary interpretation is ...
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... analysis of literary texts and has been concerned with analysis of the text in itself.10 This book aims to analyse texts which are not generally considered ' literary ' , and to consider both their production and their reception , I ...
... analysis of literary texts and has been concerned with analysis of the text in itself.10 This book aims to analyse texts which are not generally considered ' literary ' , and to consider both their production and their reception , I ...
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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 - 2003 |
Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills Sin vista previa disponible - 1991 |
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Página 10 - I would like to show with precise examples that in analysing discourses themselves, one sees the loosening of the embrace, apparently so tight, of words and things, and the emergence of a group of rules proper to discursive practice. These rules define not the dumb existence of a reality, nor the canonical use of a vocabulary, but the ordering of objects.