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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... textual constraints ( Hulme , 1986 ; D. Porter , 1982 ) . The period of 1850-1930 is the one where British colonial interests in other nations were made most apparent ; but how was this colonial strength negotiated in texts by women who ...
... textual constraints ( Hulme , 1986 ; D. Porter , 1982 ) . The period of 1850-1930 is the one where British colonial interests in other nations were made most apparent ; but how was this colonial strength negotiated in texts by women who ...
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... texts , travel writing is essentially an instrument within colonial expansion and served to reinforce colonial rule once in place . These critics study travel texts using the kind of careful analysis of tropes and structures which would ...
... texts , travel writing is essentially an instrument within colonial expansion and served to reinforce colonial rule once in place . These critics study travel texts using the kind of careful analysis of tropes and structures which would ...
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... texts as accounts of individual women's lives , the colonial material , i.e. , that which links their accounts to ... textual directions , that their writing exposes the unsteady foundations on which it is based . Their textual unease is ...
... texts as accounts of individual women's lives , the colonial material , i.e. , that which links their accounts to ... textual directions , that their writing exposes the unsteady foundations on which it is based . Their textual unease is ...
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... texts have been read has been primarily ' realist ' , that is , they are not analysed as textual artefacts , but rather as simple autobiographies . The only critics who have concerned themselves with women's travel writing have been ...
... texts have been read has been primarily ' realist ' , that is , they are not analysed as textual artefacts , but rather as simple autobiographies . The only critics who have concerned themselves with women's travel writing have been ...
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... texts , many critics impose a schema of reading , whereby many parts of the text have to be left out of the account . Beer suggests that our task when reading texts from the past is to : receive the same fullness of resource from past ...
... texts , many critics impose a schema of reading , whereby many parts of the text have to be left out of the account . Beer suggests that our task when reading texts from the past is to : receive the same fullness of resource from past ...
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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.