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

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Routledge, 2 sept. 2003 - 240 pages
Discourses of Difference unravels the complexities of writings by British women travellers of the `high colonial' period. Sara Mills examines the relation of women travellers to colonialism, positioned as they were at the site of conflicting discourses: femininity, feminism, and patriarchal imperialism. Using feminist discourse theory, Sara Mills analyses the writings of three women travellers - Alexandra David-Neel, Mary Kingsley and Nina Mazuchelli. Her examination of agency, identity, and the contemporary social environment, is an important and inspiring step forward in post-colonial cultural and literary theory.

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INTRODUCTION
1
Part I CRITICAL RESPONSES TO WOMENS TRAVEL WRITING
25
Part II CONSTRAINTS ON PRODUCTION AND RECEPTION
65
Part III CASE STUDIES
121
NOTES
199
BIBLIOGRAPHY
213
INDEX
229

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