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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... WEST AFRICA ( 1897 ) 153 7 NINA MAZUCHELLI : THE INDIAN ALPS AND HOW 175 WE CROSSED THEM ( 1876 ) 8 CONCLUSION Notes Bibliography Index 195 200 213 228 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Patrick Williams has , as always , been tremendously.
... WEST AFRICA ( 1897 ) 153 7 NINA MAZUCHELLI : THE INDIAN ALPS AND HOW 175 WE CROSSED THEM ( 1876 ) 8 CONCLUSION Notes Bibliography Index 195 200 213 228 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Patrick Williams has , as always , been tremendously.
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... Western humanism has privileged the experi- ence of the Western masculine elite as it proclaims univer- sals about truth , freedom and human nature . ( Diamond and Quinby ( eds ) , 1988 : x ) There are certain elements of Foucault's ...
... Western humanism has privileged the experi- ence of the Western masculine elite as it proclaims univer- sals about truth , freedom and human nature . ( Diamond and Quinby ( eds ) , 1988 : x ) There are certain elements of Foucault's ...
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... West invented this astonishing constraint , which it imposed on everyone , to say everything in order to efface everything , to formulate even the least faults in an uninterrupted , desperate , exhaustive murmur- ing , from which ...
... West invented this astonishing constraint , which it imposed on everyone , to say everything in order to efface everything , to formulate even the least faults in an uninterrupted , desperate , exhaustive murmur- ing , from which ...
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... West Africa ( 1897 / 1965 ) ; and Nina Mazuchelli , The Indian Alps and How We Crossed them ( 1876 ) . My reasons for choosing these books are various . Firstly , the texts seem to exemplify a range of positions within the discourses of ...
... West Africa ( 1897 / 1965 ) ; and Nina Mazuchelli , The Indian Alps and How We Crossed them ( 1876 ) . My reasons for choosing these books are various . Firstly , the texts seem to exemplify a range of positions within the discourses of ...
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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.