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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... reason , women as individuals and as writers are always seen to be marginal to the process of colonial- ism . A further reason why the colonial context is not con- sidered by critics is that women's writing and their involvement in ...
... reason , women as individuals and as writers are always seen to be marginal to the process of colonial- ism . A further reason why the colonial context is not con- sidered by critics is that women's writing and their involvement in ...
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... reason , it is difficult to talk about Foucault in the singular , since there are several positions which Foucault occupies . As Diane Macdonell comments : there is little to gain from a fully unified survey of Foucault's work ... a ...
... reason , it is difficult to talk about Foucault in the singular , since there are several positions which Foucault occupies . As Diane Macdonell comments : there is little to gain from a fully unified survey of Foucault's work ... a ...
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An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills. For this reason , I will be using Foucault's work very much in the manner that he suggests that readers do , as a ' tool - box ' and not as totalising theory , able to ...
An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills. For this reason , I will be using Foucault's work very much in the manner that he suggests that readers do , as a ' tool - box ' and not as totalising theory , able to ...
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... reasons . The first is that , whether one wants it to be or not , it is always in virtual opposition to something like the truth . . . . The second inconvenience is that it refers , necessarily I believe , to something like a subject ...
... reasons . The first is that , whether one wants it to be or not , it is always in virtual opposition to something like the truth . . . . The second inconvenience is that it refers , necessarily I believe , to something like a subject ...
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... reasons . Firstly , because , as I men- tioned earlier , he explicitly questions the truth status of his own discourse repeatedly and alludes to the ways in which his position is not consistent . Secondly , he says that he does not want ...
... reasons . Firstly , because , as I men- tioned earlier , he explicitly questions the truth status of his own discourse repeatedly and alludes to the ways in which his position is not consistent . Secondly , he says that he does not want ...
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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.