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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... Hulme and Dennis Porter have analysed the heterogeneity in discourse structures within the colonial period , but they have not con- sidered the way that women writers had to negotiate different textual constraints ( Hulme , 1986 ; D ...
... Hulme and Dennis Porter have analysed the heterogeneity in discourse structures within the colonial period , but they have not con- sidered the way that women writers had to negotiate different textual constraints ( Hulme , 1986 ; D ...
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... Hulme , Homi Bhabha , Rana Kabbani and Gayatri Spivak.2 For them , along with more clearly ' literary ' texts , travel writing is essentially an instrument within colonial expansion and served to reinforce colonial rule once in place ...
... Hulme , Homi Bhabha , Rana Kabbani and Gayatri Spivak.2 For them , along with more clearly ' literary ' texts , travel writing is essentially an instrument within colonial expansion and served to reinforce colonial rule once in place ...
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... Hulme's work on colonial discourse : " The venture . . . is archaeological ; no smooth history emerges , but rather a series of fragments which , read speculatively , hint at a story that can never be fully recovered ' ( Hulme , 1986 ...
... Hulme's work on colonial discourse : " The venture . . . is archaeological ; no smooth history emerges , but rather a series of fragments which , read speculatively , hint at a story that can never be fully recovered ' ( Hulme , 1986 ...
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... Hulme uses his work in conjunction with Althusser and Macherey ( Hulme , 1986 ) . Although Marxist theory allows the critic to be explicit about her political motivation , I have chosen to use the work of Foucault instead . Although I ...
... Hulme uses his work in conjunction with Althusser and Macherey ( Hulme , 1986 ) . Although Marxist theory allows the critic to be explicit about her political motivation , I have chosen to use the work of Foucault instead . Although I ...
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... Hulme , using a psychoanalytic Marxist framework , aims to ' make a text speak more than it knows ' ( Hulme , 1986 : 11-12 ) , and this leads him to describe Christopher Columbus's diary as ' a veritable palimp- sest ' ( ibid .: 1986 ...
... Hulme , using a psychoanalytic Marxist framework , aims to ' make a text speak more than it knows ' ( Hulme , 1986 : 11-12 ) , and this leads him to describe Christopher Columbus's diary as ' a veritable palimp- sest ' ( ibid .: 1986 ...
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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.