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Discourses of Difference : an Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism

Sara Mills
Unravels the complexities of writings by British women of the `high colonial' period. Sara Mills analyses the writings of three women travellers, extending recent post-colonial and cultural theory in an important and inspiring study
eBook, English, 1993
Taylor and Francis, Hoboken, 1993
1 online resource (242 pages)
9780203388372, 9780415046299, 0203388372, 0415046297
994450380
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; FEMINIST WORK ON WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING; GENDER AND THE STUDY OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE; FOUCAULT AND CONSTRAINTS ON THE PRODUCTION OF TEXT; CONSTRAINTS ON THE RECEPTION OF WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING; ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEL: MY JOURNEY TO LHASA (1927); MARY KINGSLEY: TRAVELS IN WEST AFRICA (1897); NINA MAZUCHELLI: THE INDIAN ALPS AND HOW WE CROSSED THEM (1876); CONCLUSION; Notes; Bibliography; Index
English