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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... adopt the imperialist voice with the ease with which male writers did . The writing which they produced tended to be more tentative than male writing , less able to assert the ' truths ' of British rule without qualification . Because ...
... adopt the imperialist voice with the ease with which male writers did . The writing which they produced tended to be more tentative than male writing , less able to assert the ' truths ' of British rule without qualification . Because ...
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... 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 , resourceful , women characters in situations rarely found in ...
... 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 , resourceful , women characters in situations rarely found in ...
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... adopt in this book will be less concerned with proving a point ( arguing , for example , that women's travel writing is better or worse than men's ) , but rather with exploring the possibilities of interpreting this writing within its ...
... adopt in this book will be less concerned with proving a point ( arguing , for example , that women's travel writing is better or worse than men's ) , but rather with exploring the possibilities of interpreting this writing within its ...
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... adopting a male theoretical ' guru ' . However , in search of explanations , feminists may fall under the sway of a theorist , male or female , who seems to be able to provide plausible explanations or readings . Recently , Foucault has ...
... adopting a male theoretical ' guru ' . However , in search of explanations , feminists may fall under the sway of a theorist , male or female , who seems to be able to provide plausible explanations or readings . Recently , Foucault has ...
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... adopt or oppose . This can seem for feminists like a form of infatu- ation , as Meaghan Morris has put it , like ' being screwed ' ( Morris , in Morris and Patton ( eds ) , 1979 : 148 ) , because , by adopting male theoretical work ...
... adopt or oppose . This can seem for feminists like a form of infatu- ation , as Meaghan Morris has put it , like ' being screwed ' ( Morris , in Morris and Patton ( eds ) , 1979 : 148 ) , because , by adopting male theoretical work ...
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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.