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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... truths ' of British rule without qualification . Because of their oppressive socialisation and marginal position in relation to imperialism , despite their generally privileged class position , women writers tended to concentrate on ...
... truths ' of British rule without qualification . Because of their oppressive socialisation and marginal position in relation to imperialism , despite their generally privileged class position , women writers tended to concentrate on ...
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... truth of utterances ) ' ( C. Gordon , 1979 : 34 ) . Thus , it is not necessary to read travel writing as expressing the truth of the author's life , but rather , it is the result of a configuration of discursive structures with which ...
... truth of utterances ) ' ( C. Gordon , 1979 : 34 ) . Thus , it is not necessary to read travel writing as expressing the truth of the author's life , but rather , it is the result of a configuration of discursive structures with which ...
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... truth claims . It is in the analysis of statements that it is possible to trace women writers ' ambivalence in their position in relation to power . Secondly , Foucault's concern with the surface of discourse is 10 INTRODUCTION.
... truth claims . It is in the analysis of statements that it is possible to trace women writers ' ambivalence in their position in relation to power . Secondly , Foucault's concern with the surface of discourse is 10 INTRODUCTION.
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... truth which awaits discovery . Hermeneutic analysis posits a level of ' reality ' which is hidden from most people , but to which it has access through analysis . Foucault asserts that there is no hidden ' reality ' ; what is dis ...
... truth which awaits discovery . Hermeneutic analysis posits a level of ' reality ' which is hidden from most people , but to which it has access through analysis . Foucault asserts that there is no hidden ' reality ' ; what is dis ...
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... 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 people to ' buy ' his theories wholesale . It should be stressed that using theory ...
... 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 people to ' buy ' his theories wholesale . It should be stressed that using theory ...
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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.