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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... men's ; their work was informed by different discursive frameworks and pressures . It is these frameworks which I shall map out . Because of the way that discourses of femininity circulated within the late nine- teenth and early ...
... men's ; their work was informed by different discursive frameworks and pressures . It is these frameworks which I shall map out . Because of the way that discourses of femininity circulated within the late nine- teenth and early ...
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... men's ) , but rather with exploring the possibilities of interpreting this writing within its period and its ... men's writing . I shall argue that even when women's writing seems to consist of similar elements to men's , it is ...
... men's ) , but rather with exploring the possibilities of interpreting this writing within its period and its ... men's writing . I shall argue that even when women's writing seems to consist of similar elements to men's , it is ...
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... men's writing , but also in its own terms which makes this study so complex . Certain discursive elements are shared by both male and female - authored texts , but they are never- theless received , commented upon and marketed ...
... men's writing , but also in its own terms which makes this study so complex . Certain discursive elements are shared by both male and female - authored texts , but they are never- theless received , commented upon and marketed ...
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... men- tioned earlier , he explicitly questions the 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 ...
... men- tioned earlier , he explicitly questions the 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 ...
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... men theorists . In that male and female critics construct the discursive formation within which we are working , the work of male theorists cannot be ignored ( Moi , 1989 ) . Instead , feminists must use males ' theories and adapt them ...
... men theorists . In that male and female critics construct the discursive formation within which we are working , the work of male theorists cannot be ignored ( Moi , 1989 ) . Instead , feminists must use males ' theories and adapt them ...
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