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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... status of Foucault's work is problematic , that does not therefore invalidate my intention to put his theories to work . Throughout his career , Foucault remained an iconoclast , refusing to be limited to the position of his last text ...
... status of Foucault's work is problematic , that does not therefore invalidate my intention to put his theories to work . Throughout his career , Foucault remained an iconoclast , refusing to be limited to the position of his last text ...
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... by those rules , regardless of their literary or factual status ; thirdly , group- ings of texts / utterances . Perhaps it is best to follow Macdonell in describing discourse in the following way : ' Whatever 8 INTRODUCTION.
... by those rules , regardless of their literary or factual status ; thirdly , group- ings of texts / utterances . Perhaps it is best to follow Macdonell in describing discourse in the following way : ' Whatever 8 INTRODUCTION.
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... status of his own work and knowl- edge . He says : The notion of ideology appears to me to be difficult to use for three reasons . The first is that , whether one wants it to be or not , it is always in virtual opposition to something ...
... status of his own work and knowl- edge . He says : The notion of ideology appears to me to be difficult to use for three reasons . The first is that , whether one wants it to be or not , it is always in virtual opposition to something ...
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... autobiographical ' . This labelling should be seen as an attempt to deny women the status of creators of cultural artefacts . However , the analysis is still further complicated by the fact that , whilst labelled ' 12 INTRODUCTION.
... autobiographical ' . This labelling should be seen as an attempt to deny women the status of creators of cultural artefacts . However , the analysis is still further complicated by the fact that , whilst labelled ' 12 INTRODUCTION.
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... 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 people to ' buy ' his theories wholesale . It should be stressed that using theory of any ...
... 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 people to ' buy ' his theories wholesale . It should be stressed that using theory of any ...
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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.