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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... simply to reduce them to biographical studies of exceptional spinsters , as some critics have done . What I intend to do has more in common with Peter Hulme's work on colonial discourse : " The venture . . . is archaeological ; no ...
... simply to reduce them to biographical studies of exceptional spinsters , as some critics have done . What I intend to do has more in common with Peter Hulme's work on colonial discourse : " The venture . . . is archaeological ; no ...
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... 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.
... 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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... simply have to transcribe in writing . It thus , in some measure , distinguishes the ' world ' from the act of knowing the ' world ' . The distinctions we make when we ' read ' the world are those which society has con- structed and ...
... simply have to transcribe in writing . It thus , in some measure , distinguishes the ' world ' from the act of knowing the ' world ' . The distinctions we make when we ' read ' the world are those which society has con- structed and ...
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... simply as a feminist dimension to male theories . Showalter states that feminists should reject ' male critical theory ' since it ' keeps us dependent upon it and retards our progress in solving our own theoretical problems ...
... simply as a feminist dimension to male theories . Showalter states that feminists should reject ' male critical theory ' since it ' keeps us dependent upon it and retards our progress in solving our own theoretical problems ...
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... simply a matter of changing consciousness on an individual basis , but resistance being a necessary part of power . He sees the knowl- edge that archaeological and genealogical work can produce as a way of creating a counter - knowledge ...
... simply a matter of changing consciousness on an individual basis , but resistance being a necessary part of power . He sees the knowl- edge that archaeological and genealogical work can produce as a way of creating a counter - knowledge ...
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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.