Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and ColonialismRoutledge, 2 sept. 2003 - 240 pages Discourses of Difference unravels the complexities of writings by British women travellers of the `high colonial' period. Sara Mills examines the relation of women travellers to colonialism, positioned as they were at the site of conflicting discourses: femininity, feminism, and patriarchal imperialism. Using feminist discourse theory, Sara Mills analyses the writings of three women travellers - Alexandra David-Neel, Mary Kingsley and Nina Mazuchelli. Her examination of agency, identity, and the contemporary social environment, is an important and inspiring step forward in post-colonial cultural and literary theory. |
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... Itis these frameworkswhich I shallmapout. Because ofthe way that discoursesoffemininity circulated withinthe latenineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women travel writers were unable to adopt the imperialist voice with the easewith ...
... Itis these frameworkswhich I shallmapout. Because ofthe way that discoursesoffemininity circulated withinthe latenineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women travel writers were unable to adopt the imperialist voice with the easewith ...
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... itis judged and categorised differently.Thus, the difference is not a simplistic textual distinction between men's writing on the one hand and women'swriting on the other,but rather aseries ofdiscursive pressures on productionand ...
... itis judged and categorised differently.Thus, the difference is not a simplistic textual distinction between men's writing on the one hand and women'swriting on the other,but rather aseries ofdiscursive pressures on productionand ...
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... itis essential tolook at all types ofwriting injust as criticaland suspicious a way as one woulda literary text. For many,the notionofusing the work of MichelFoucault is theoretically problematic; asMeaghan MorrisandPaul Pattonsay ...
... itis essential tolook at all types ofwriting injust as criticaland suspicious a way as one woulda literary text. For many,the notionofusing the work of MichelFoucault is theoretically problematic; asMeaghan MorrisandPaul Pattonsay ...
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... itis especially important to formulate the notionof a general group ofshared characteristics. Edward Said, drawing onFoucault's work,uses the termdiscourse to refer toalltexts, literaryand nonliterary, which are written about the Orient ...
... itis especially important to formulate the notionof a general group ofshared characteristics. Edward Said, drawing onFoucault's work,uses the termdiscourse to refer toalltexts, literaryand nonliterary, which are written about the Orient ...
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... itis not necessarytoread travel writing as expressing thetruthof the author's life,butrather,it is the result of a configuration of discursive structureswithwhich the author negotiates. Withinthestudy of colonial discourse, which poses ...
... itis not necessarytoread travel writing as expressing thetruthof the author's life,butrather,it is the result of a configuration of discursive structureswithwhich the author negotiates. Withinthestudy of colonial discourse, which poses ...
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