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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 6-10 de 72
Página 13
... male theoretical ' guru ' . However , in search of explanations , feminists may fall under the sway of a theorist , male or female , who seems to be able to provide plausible explanations or readings . Recently , Foucault has gained a ...
... male theoretical ' guru ' . However , in search of explanations , feminists may fall under the sway of a theorist , male or female , who seems to be able to provide plausible explanations or readings . Recently , Foucault has gained a ...
Página 14
... male - authored theories , also risk adding to the body of knowledge which suggests that theory is in fact male.13 So acute is this problem of using male theoretical work that some Anglo - American feminists like Elaine Showalter and ...
... male - authored theories , also risk adding to the body of knowledge which suggests that theory is in fact male.13 So acute is this problem of using male theoretical work that some Anglo - American feminists like Elaine Showalter and ...
Página 15
... male theoretical work because of this domination . Indeed , it is more appropriate to consider feminist appropriation of male- and female - authored theories as constituting feminist theory , much as male appro- priations are considered ...
... male theoretical work because of this domination . Indeed , it is more appropriate to consider feminist appropriation of male- and female - authored theories as constituting feminist theory , much as male appro- priations are considered ...
Página 18
... males and females . Foucault notes : power is not constructed on the basis of ' wills ' ( individual or collective ) , no more than it is derived from interests .. .. This is not to say that power is independent , or that it could be ...
... males and females . Foucault notes : power is not constructed on the basis of ' wills ' ( individual or collective ) , no more than it is derived from interests .. .. This is not to say that power is independent , or that it could be ...
Página 21
... male travel writers in the stress they lay on personal involvement and relationships with people of the other culture and in the less authoritarian stance they take vis - d - vis narrative voice . I demonstrate that these two factors ...
... male travel writers in the stress they lay on personal involvement and relationships with people of the other culture and in the less authoritarian stance they take vis - d - vis narrative voice . I demonstrate that these two factors ...
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 - 2003 |
Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills Sin vista previa disponible - 1991 |
Términos y frases comunes
adopt adventure hero African Alexandra David-Neel analysis assert attempt Batten Bishop-Bird British cannibalism century chapter colonial context colonial discourse colonial period colonial situation colonialist colonised country concerned considered constraints constructed conventions critics cultural Denys Dervla Murphy describes descriptions discourses of femininity discursive frameworks drawing elements example fact female feminine discourses feminism feminist firstly Foucault Frigga Haug gender Hopkirk Hulme ibid imperial Kingsley's text Lama Lesley Blanch Lhasa literary male travellers Mary Kingsley Mary Louise Pratt masculine Mildred Cable narrative narrator figure native nineteenth notes notion Orientalism Orientalist patriarchy Paul Fussell portrayed position Pratt present problematic problems produced reader reference representations Robyn Davidson role says scientific seen sexual shows simply statements status structures suggests textual theorists theory Tibet Tibetan travel accounts travel book travel texts truth voice West Africa western whilst woman women's texts women's travel writing women's writing Worley written Yongden
Pasajes populares
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.