Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and ColonialismPsychology Press, 1993 - 232 pages 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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... British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Mills , Sara Discourses of Difference : Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism . New ed I. Title 828.8080932 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Mills , Sara ...
... British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Mills , Sara Discourses of Difference : Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism . New ed I. Title 828.8080932 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Mills , Sara ...
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... British women travel writers who describe their travels to colonised countries , which I am taking to mean broadly those countries which were under British economic , religious or political control , however loosely that may be defined ...
... British women travel writers who describe their travels to colonised countries , which I am taking to mean broadly those countries which were under British economic , religious or political control , however loosely that may be defined ...
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... British cultural forms of the 1980s and 1990s . Reading travel writing from Britain's colonial past may be part of an attempt to distract attention away from the present historical situation . Within this view , travel writing is ...
... British cultural forms of the 1980s and 1990s . Reading travel writing from Britain's colonial past may be part of an attempt to distract attention away from the present historical situation . Within this view , travel writing is ...
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... British women were only allowed to figure as symbols of home and purity ; women as active participants can barely be conceived of . This is because of social conventions for conceptualising imperialism , which seem to be as much about ...
... British women were only allowed to figure as symbols of home and purity ; women as active participants can barely be conceived of . This is because of social conventions for conceptualising imperialism , which seem to be as much about ...
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... British Empire , whilst at the same time being unable to adopt a straight- forwardly colonial voice . For a feminist reader in the 1990s , the texts are a mixture of the thoroughly enjoyable ( adventure narratives depicting strong ...
... British Empire , whilst at the same time being unable to adopt a straight- forwardly colonial voice . For a feminist reader in the 1990s , the texts are a mixture of the thoroughly enjoyable ( adventure narratives depicting strong ...
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Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills Aucun aperçu disponible - 1991 |
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Page 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.