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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... with writing itself ( Fussell , 1980 ) . However , these tensions reveal some of the contradictions and silences implicit in writing of the period . Women's travel writing is problematic because , although it was 3 INTRODUCTION.
... with writing itself ( Fussell , 1980 ) . However , these tensions reveal some of the contradictions and silences implicit in writing of the period . Women's travel writing is problematic because , although it was 3 INTRODUCTION.
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An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills. Women's travel writing is problematic because , although it was widely read at the time of its publication , and many of the texts present a slightly different view of ...
An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills. Women's travel writing is problematic because , although it was widely read at the time of its publication , and many of the texts present a slightly different view of ...
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... 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 . . . may produce something resembling a pattern , but in which ...
... 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 . . . may produce something resembling a pattern , but in which ...
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... problematic : I would like to show with precise examples , in analysing discourses themselves one can see the loosening of the embrace , apparently so tight , of words and things , and the emergence of a group of rules proper to ...
... problematic : I would like to show with precise examples , in analysing discourses themselves one can see the loosening of the embrace , apparently so tight , of words and things , and the emergence of a group of rules proper to ...
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... problematic character , voluntarily uncertain , to the assertions advanced . What I have said is not " what I think " but often what I wonder whether it couldn't be thought ' ( Foucault , in Morris and Patton , 1979 : 58 ) . Rather than ...
... problematic character , voluntarily uncertain , to the assertions advanced . What I have said is not " what I think " but often what I wonder whether it couldn't be thought ' ( Foucault , in Morris and Patton , 1979 : 58 ) . Rather than ...
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