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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... FOUCAULT AND CONSTRAINTS ON THE PRODUCTION OF TEXT 67 4 CONSTRAINTS ON THE RECEPTION OF 108 WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING Part III Case Studies 5 ALEXANDRA DAVID - NEEL : MY JOURNEY TO 125 LHASA ( 1927 ) 6 MARY KINGSLEY : TRAVELS IN WEST ...
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... Foucault and feminist theory , but not in the seamless way that perhaps the term ' blend ' suggests ; rather I am interested in the way that Foucault's theories , colonial discourse and feminist theories can interact to produce an ...
... Foucault and feminist theory , but not in the seamless way that perhaps the term ' blend ' suggests ; rather I am interested in the way that Foucault's theories , colonial discourse and feminist theories can interact to produce an ...
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... Foucault might have for a feminist analysis of women's travel writing since he rarely addresses the question of gender , and he certainly does not produce ' readings ' of texts . However , Foucault's work poses questions which are of ...
... Foucault might have for a feminist analysis of women's travel writing since he rarely addresses the question of gender , and he certainly does not produce ' readings ' of texts . However , Foucault's work poses questions which are of ...
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... Foucault's work very much in the manner that he suggests that readers do , as a ' tool - box ' and not as totalising ... Foucault instead . Although I would identify myself as Marxist feminist , there are three aspects of ...
... Foucault's work very much in the manner that he suggests that readers do , as a ' tool - box ' and not as totalising ... Foucault instead . Although I would identify myself as Marxist feminist , there are three aspects of ...
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... Foucault says : We must not imagine that the world turns towards us a legible face which we would only have to decipher . The world is not the accomplice of our knowledge ; there is no pre - discursive providence which disposes the ...
... Foucault says : We must not imagine that the world turns towards us a legible face which we would only have to decipher . The world is not the accomplice of our knowledge ; there is no pre - discursive providence which disposes the ...
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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.