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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... truth claims . It is in the analysis of statements that it is possible to trace women writers ' ambivalence in their position in relation to power . Secondly , Foucault's concern with the surface of discourse is 10 INTRODUCTION.
... truth claims . It is in the analysis of statements that it is possible to trace women writers ' ambivalence in their position in relation to power . Secondly , Foucault's concern with the surface of discourse is 10 INTRODUCTION.
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... position in relation to something which must function as the infrastructure or economic or material determinant for it . ( Foucault , in Morris and Patton ( eds ) , 1979 : 36 ) Dreyfus and Rabinow note : " The practitioner of ...
... position in relation to something which must function as the infrastructure or economic or material determinant for it . ( Foucault , in Morris and Patton ( eds ) , 1979 : 36 ) Dreyfus and Rabinow note : " The practitioner of ...
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... position , it is essential to specify which elements of feminist thought I am drawing on , and how feminist the use of the work of Michel Foucault can be . Feminist literary theory can be split into those theories which are usable but ...
... position , it is essential to specify which elements of feminist thought I am drawing on , and how feminist the use of the work of Michel Foucault can be . Feminist literary theory can be split into those theories which are usable but ...
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... position is not consistent . Secondly , he says that he does not want people to ' buy ' his theories wholesale . It should be stressed that using theory of any kind is an appropriation , since Foucault himself states , the reader ...
... position is not consistent . Secondly , he says that he does not want people to ' buy ' his theories wholesale . It should be stressed that using theory of any kind is an appropriation , since Foucault himself states , the reader ...
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... positions and these involve a set of theoretical assumptions which you either have to adopt or oppose . This can seem for feminists like a form of infatu- ation , as Meaghan Morris has put it , like ' being screwed ' ( Morris , in ...
... positions and these involve a set of theoretical assumptions which you either have to adopt or oppose . This can seem for feminists like a form of infatu- ation , as Meaghan Morris has put it , like ' being screwed ' ( Morris , in ...
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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.