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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... texts are produced and received within a context which shares similarities with the discursive construction and reception of male texts , whilst at the same time , because of the discursive frameworks which exert pressure on female ...
... texts are produced and received within a context which shares similarities with the discursive construction and reception of male texts , whilst at the same time , because of the discursive frameworks which exert pressure on female ...
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... texts , literary and non - literary , which are written about the Orient , because , for him , they have a similar ... texts are produced ; secondly , all texts and utterances produced by those rules , regardless of their literary or ...
... texts , literary and non - literary , which are written about the Orient , because , for him , they have a similar ... texts are produced ; secondly , all texts and utterances produced by those rules , regardless of their literary or ...
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... texts , both insightful and inspiring , it is this delving for hidden meanings which is superfluous . To me , these colonial texts seem to be all surface.9 Thirdly , in this context , it is important to draw on the work of a theorist ...
... texts , both insightful and inspiring , it is this delving for hidden meanings which is superfluous . To me , these colonial texts seem to be all surface.9 Thirdly , in this context , it is important to draw on the work of a theorist ...
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... textual theory has restricted itself to the 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 ...
... textual theory has restricted itself to the 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 ...
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... texts are subject to accusations of exaggeration and falsehood . Thus , although my work is analysing ' factual ' texts , I will be asking very ' literary ' questions of them . A mixture of certain elements of feminist theory and ...
... texts are subject to accusations of exaggeration and falsehood . Thus , although my work is analysing ' factual ' texts , I will be asking very ' literary ' questions of them . A mixture of certain elements of feminist theory and ...
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 |
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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.