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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... to frame one's work under the aegis of a particular theorist or group of theor- ists . It is important to ask what explanatory advantages the use of Michel Foucault's work has . This question is especially pertinent 6 INTRODUCTION.
... to frame one's work under the aegis of a particular theorist or group of theor- ists . It is important to ask what explanatory advantages the use of Michel Foucault's work has . This question is especially pertinent 6 INTRODUCTION.
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... important role in much work on colonial writing . With such texts , it is especially important to formulate the notion of a general group of shared characteristics . Edward Said , drawing on Foucault's work , uses the term discourse to ...
... important role in much work on colonial writing . With such texts , it is especially important to formulate the notion of a general group of shared characteristics . Edward Said , drawing on Foucault's work , uses the term discourse to ...
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... important 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 ...
... important 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 ...
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... important : he is not concerned with the hidden meaning of the text , since for him this type of hermeneutic impulse is based on the notion of an illusory truth which awaits discovery . Hermeneutic analysis posits a level of ' reality ...
... important : he is not concerned with the hidden meaning of the text , since for him this type of hermeneutic impulse is based on the notion of an illusory truth which awaits discovery . Hermeneutic analysis posits a level of ' reality ...
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... important in attempt- ing to theorise or describe patriarchy . If one only has a re- pressive model of patriarchy , then it is very difficult to explain how it is that so many women have managed , against the odds , to write and react ...
... important in attempt- ing to theorise or describe patriarchy . If one only has a re- pressive model of patriarchy , then it is very difficult to explain how it is that so many women have managed , against the odds , to write and react ...
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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.