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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... possible to depict these writers and their narrative figures as proto - feminists who live up to the titles ' indomitable ' and ' eccentric ' . However , that would entail ignoring many women's texts which do not fit that mould . Much ...
... possible to depict these writers and their narrative figures as proto - feminists who live up to the titles ' indomitable ' and ' eccentric ' . However , that would entail ignoring many women's texts which do not fit that mould . Much ...
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... possible to transpose the work which has been done on colonial discourse on to these texts . Although this work is theoretically more attractive than some of the biographical readings of the texts , the way that the writing of the ...
... possible to transpose the work which has been done on colonial discourse on to these texts . Although this work is theoretically more attractive than some of the biographical readings of the texts , the way that the writing of the ...
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... by their truth claims . It is in the analysis of statements that it is possible to trace women writers ' ambivalence in their position in relation to power . Secondly , Foucault's concern with the surface of discourse is 10 INTRODUCTION.
... by their truth claims . It is in the analysis of statements that it is possible to trace women writers ' ambivalence in their position in relation to power . Secondly , Foucault's concern with the surface of discourse is 10 INTRODUCTION.
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... possible only to draw on the work of women theorists , or , for that matter , only men theorists . In that male and female critics construct the discursive formation within which we are working , the work of male theorists cannot be ...
... possible only to draw on the work of women theorists , or , for that matter , only men theorists . In that male and female critics construct the discursive formation within which we are working , the work of male theorists cannot be ...
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... possible indications of how we have participated actively in the formation of our own past experience . ( Haug ( ed . ) , 1987 : 35 ) Foucault rejects the posing of the subject as the locus and origin of meaning , and he wishes to ...
... possible indications of how we have participated actively in the formation of our own past experience . ( Haug ( ed . ) , 1987 : 35 ) Foucault rejects the posing of the subject as the locus and origin of meaning , and he wishes to ...
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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.