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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... elements which it shares with men's writing . I shall argue that even when women's writing seems to consist of similar elements to men's , it is judged and categorised differently . Thus , the difference is not a simplistic textual ...
... elements which it shares with men's writing . I shall argue that even when women's writing seems to consist of similar elements to men's , it is judged and categorised differently . Thus , the difference is not a simplistic textual ...
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... elements are shared by both male and female - authored texts , but they are never- theless received , commented upon and marketed differently . I will certainly not be arguing that women's travel writing is generically distinct from ...
... elements are shared by both male and female - authored texts , but they are never- theless received , commented upon and marketed differently . I will certainly not be arguing that women's travel writing is generically distinct from ...
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... elements which defines a discourse is its relation to other discourses , rather than its role in expressing an individual's ' feelings ' or ' opinions ' . To quote Macdonell again : A ' discourse ' , as a particular area of language use ...
... elements which defines a discourse is its relation to other discourses , rather than its role in expressing an individual's ' feelings ' or ' opinions ' . To quote Macdonell again : A ' discourse ' , as a particular area of language use ...
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... element that they contain . . . ; but on the contrary , it questions them as to their mode of existence . . . what it means for them to have appeared when and where they did - they and no others . ( Foucault , 1972a : 109 ) This is of ...
... element that they contain . . . ; but on the contrary , it questions them as to their mode of existence . . . what it means for them to have appeared when and where they did - they and no others . ( Foucault , 1972a : 109 ) This is of ...
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... elements of feminist thought I am drawing on , and how feminist the use of the work of Michel Foucault can be . Feminist literary theory can be split into those theories which are usable but naive and those which are interesting but ...
... elements of feminist thought I am drawing on , and how feminist the use of the work of Michel Foucault can be . Feminist literary theory can be split into those theories which are usable but naive and those which are interesting but ...
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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.