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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... describe constructed their texts within a range of power nexuses : the power of patriarchy which acted upon them as middle - class women , through discourses of femininity : and the power of colonialism which acted upon them in relation ...
... describe constructed their texts within a range of power nexuses : the power of patriarchy which acted upon them as middle - class women , through discourses of femininity : and the power of colonialism which acted upon them in relation ...
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... describing confessional writing , we are thus describing the way power is resisted ( and I would add also the complicity with power ) and the way it is enacted . Women's travel writing can be seen as a response to disciplinary pressure ...
... describing confessional writing , we are thus describing the way power is resisted ( and I would add also the complicity with power ) and the way it is enacted . Women's travel writing can be seen as a response to disciplinary pressure ...
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... describe in chapter 3. I also focus on the way that the discourses of femininity contest or comply with discursive ... describes her journey in disguise to Lhasa , the capital of Tibet , which at that time was forbidden to foreigners ...
... describe in chapter 3. I also focus on the way that the discourses of femininity contest or comply with discursive ... describes her journey in disguise to Lhasa , the capital of Tibet , which at that time was forbidden to foreigners ...
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... describe travel to non - European countries which had some form of colonial relationship with Britain . I have chosen non - European , colonial countries , because colonial texts are produced and processed in a different way . Although ...
... describe travel to non - European countries which had some form of colonial relationship with Britain . I have chosen non - European , colonial countries , because colonial texts are produced and processed in a different way . Although ...
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... describing sexual matters ; it would have been considered improper for a woman writer even to allude to sexual matters . This is a notable silence in the texts . A further element which is shared by the texts is a difficulty in the ...
... describing sexual matters ; it would have been considered improper for a woman writer even to allude to sexual matters . This is a notable silence in the texts . A further element which is shared by the texts is a difficulty in the ...
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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.