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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... context ; most writers on this subject have represented them as individuals struggling against the social conventions of the Victorian period , who were exceptional in managing to escape the system of chaperonage . Their role within the ...
... context ; most writers on this subject have represented them as individuals struggling against the social conventions of the Victorian period , who were exceptional in managing to escape the system of chaperonage . Their role within the ...
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... context which shares similarities with the discursive construction and reception of male texts , whilst at the same time , because of the discursive frameworks which exert pressure on female writers , there may be negotiations in ...
... context which shares similarities with the discursive construction and reception of male texts , whilst at the same time , because of the discursive frameworks which exert pressure on female writers , there may be negotiations in ...
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... contexts , and therefore subject itself to change and re - evaluation.7 His work has been used by many theorists within the study of colonial discourse , but usually as an addition to Marxist theor- ising : for example , Said uses his ...
... contexts , and therefore subject itself to change and re - evaluation.7 His work has been used by many theorists within the study of colonial discourse , but usually as an addition to Marxist theor- ising : for example , Said uses his ...
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... context , it is important to draw on the work of a theorist who is aware of the problems of claiming scientificity and truth for her / his own statements . A number of Marxist theorists , most notably Louis Althusser , have proposed ...
... context , it is important to draw on the work of a theorist who is aware of the problems of claiming scientificity and truth for her / his own statements . A number of Marxist theorists , most notably Louis Althusser , have proposed ...
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... context . So how can feminists use their work as a theoretical base ? This book is concerned with the way that feminists can use and transform these models . Being a feminist makes one suspicious of adopting a male theoretical ' guru ...
... context . So how can feminists use their work as a theoretical base ? This book is concerned with the way that feminists can use and transform these models . Being a feminist makes one suspicious of adopting a male theoretical ' guru ...
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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.