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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... critics impose a schema of reading , whereby many parts of the text have to be left out of the account . Beer suggests that our task when reading texts from the past is to : receive the same fullness of resource from past texts as from ...
... critics impose a schema of reading , whereby many parts of the text have to be left out of the account . Beer suggests that our task when reading texts from the past is to : receive the same fullness of resource from past texts as from ...
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... critics have done . What I intend to do has more in common with Peter Hulme's work on colonial discourse : " The ... criticism there is in this field , both by colonial discourse theorists and feminists.5 For this purpose I have blended ...
... critics have done . What I intend to do has more in common with Peter Hulme's work on colonial discourse : " The ... criticism there is in this field , both by colonial discourse theorists and feminists.5 For this purpose I have blended ...
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... critic to be explicit about her political motivation , I have chosen to use the work of Foucault instead . Although I would ... critics have worked within the field of discourse theory and have developed different definitions of the term ...
... critic to be explicit about her political motivation , I have chosen to use the work of Foucault instead . Although I would ... critics have worked within the field of discourse theory and have developed different definitions of the term ...
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... critics , drawing on the work of Pierre Macherey or Louis Althusser , tend to attempt to unearth a meaning which is unsaid or unarticulated . For example , Peter Hulme , using a psychoanalytic Marxist framework , aims to ' make a text ...
... critics , drawing on the work of Pierre Macherey or Louis Althusser , tend to attempt to unearth a meaning which is unsaid or unarticulated . For example , Peter Hulme , using a psychoanalytic Marxist framework , aims to ' make a text ...
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... critics , to assert that if we ignore male theorists then we run the risk of turning feminist theory into an untheorised subject ( Moi , 1985 ) . She considers that it is not possible only to draw on the work of women theorists , or ...
... critics , to assert that if we ignore male theorists then we run the risk of turning feminist theory into an untheorised subject ( Moi , 1985 ) . She considers that it is not possible only to draw on the work of women theorists , or ...
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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.