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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... notion of using the work of Michel Foucault is theoretically problematic ; as Meaghan Morris and Paul Patton say : ' Foucault's work does not form a system ' , it is not a consistent theory ' and ' it is a patchwork of studies which ...
... notion of using the work of Michel Foucault is theoretically problematic ; as Meaghan Morris and Paul Patton say : ' Foucault's work does not form a system ' , it is not a consistent theory ' and ' it is a patchwork of studies which ...
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... notion of discourse , a concern with the surface of discourse and a critique of claims to scientificity . Firstly , the notion of discourse plays an important role in much work on colonial writing . With such texts , it is especially ...
... notion of discourse , a concern with the surface of discourse and a critique of claims to scientificity . Firstly , the notion of discourse plays an important role in much work on colonial writing . With such texts , it is especially ...
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... notion of discourse can be useful . In discussing the way we can describe ' reality ' Foucault says : We must not imagine that the world turns towards us a legible face which we would only have to decipher . The world is not the ...
... notion of discourse can be useful . In discussing the way we can describe ' reality ' Foucault says : We must not imagine that the world turns towards us a legible face which we would only have to decipher . The world is not the ...
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... notion of an illusory 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 ...
... notion of an illusory 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 ...
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... notion of power and knowledge ; secondly , the way that discourses structure textual production and reception ; and thirdly , the notion of discipline and the confessional . Foucault's work is particularly useful because of his ...
... notion of power and knowledge ; secondly , the way that discourses structure textual production and reception ; and thirdly , the notion of discipline and the confessional . Foucault's work is particularly useful because of his ...
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