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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... knowledge ; there is no pre - discursive providence which disposes the world in our favour . ( Foucault , 1981b : 67 ) This remark is clearly aimed at dismissing the idea that the ' world ' has an order which we simply have 9 INTRODUCTION.
... knowledge ; there is no pre - discursive providence which disposes the world in our favour . ( Foucault , 1981b : 67 ) This remark is clearly aimed at dismissing the idea that the ' world ' has an order which we simply have 9 INTRODUCTION.
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... Knowledge , Foucault shows that when one analyses signifying practices , the relation between words and objects becomes problematic : I would like to show with precise examples , in analysing discourses themselves one can see the ...
... Knowledge , Foucault shows that when one analyses signifying practices , the relation between words and objects becomes problematic : I would like to show with precise examples , in analysing discourses themselves one can see the ...
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... knowledge whereby there is a distinction between ideology and scientific knowledge ( Althusser , 1984 ) , but Foucault does not attempt to privilege the status of his own work and knowl- edge . He says : The notion of ideology appears ...
... knowledge whereby there is a distinction between ideology and scientific knowledge ( Althusser , 1984 ) , but Foucault does not attempt to privilege the status of his own work and knowl- edge . He says : The notion of ideology appears ...
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... knowledge against which ideology is viewed , Foucault locates his own work within the discursive framework he has described . In much the same way , I am very aware that my concerns within this book , and what I discover , are ...
... knowledge against which ideology is viewed , Foucault locates his own work within the discursive framework he has described . In much the same way , I am very aware that my concerns within this book , and what I discover , are ...
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... knowledge which suggests that theory is in fact male.13 So acute is this problem of using male theoretical work that some Anglo - American feminists like Elaine Showalter and Dale Spender have called for , in effect , a boycott of male ...
... knowledge which suggests that theory is in fact male.13 So acute is this problem of using male theoretical work that some Anglo - American feminists like Elaine Showalter and Dale Spender have called for , in effect , a boycott of male ...
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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.