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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... question ' Is there not perhaps something in the genre that attracts second - rate talents ? ' was a common one ( Fussell , 1980 : 212 ) . With this resurgence of interest in contemporary travel writing and the reissuing of earlier ...
... question ' Is there not perhaps something in the genre that attracts second - rate talents ? ' was a common one ( Fussell , 1980 : 212 ) . With this resurgence of interest in contemporary travel writing and the reissuing of earlier ...
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... 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.
... 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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... question of gender , and he certainly does not produce ' readings ' of texts . However , Foucault's work poses questions which are of relevance to any study that involves an analysis of discourses and power . And furthermore ...
... question of gender , and he certainly does not produce ' readings ' of texts . However , Foucault's work poses questions which are of relevance to any study that involves an analysis of discourses and power . And furthermore ...
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... question things said as to what they are hiding , what they were ' really ' saying , in spite of themselves , the unspoken element that they contain . . . ; but on the contrary , it questions them as to their mode of existence ...
... question things said as to what they are hiding , what they were ' really ' saying , in spite of themselves , the unspoken element that they contain . . . ; but on the contrary , it questions them as to their mode of existence ...
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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.