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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... reader in the 1990s , the texts are a mixture of the thoroughly enjoyable ( adventure narratives depicting strong ... readers in 1987 or 1988 , 4 INTRODUCTION.
... reader in the 1990s , the texts are a mixture of the thoroughly enjoyable ( adventure narratives depicting strong ... readers in 1987 or 1988 , 4 INTRODUCTION.
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An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills. We shall read as readers in 1987 or 1988 , or with luck , 1998 , but we need not do so helplessly , merely hauling , without noticing , our own cultural baggage . That is ...
An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills. We shall read as readers in 1987 or 1988 , or with luck , 1998 , but we need not do so helplessly , merely hauling , without noticing , our own cultural baggage . That is ...
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... readers in the 1990s , will never really know what discursive elements acted on women travellers when they wrote , but this book is an attempt at an avowedly partial account . This archaeological analysis exists in a contrastive , as ...
... readers in the 1990s , will never really know what discursive elements acted on women travellers when they wrote , but this book is an attempt at an avowedly partial account . This archaeological analysis exists in a contrastive , as ...
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... readers do , as a ' tool - box ' and not as totalising theory , able to explain everything , but rather as a fragmentary theory which is descriptive of changing contexts , and therefore subject itself to change and re - evaluation.7 His ...
... readers do , as a ' tool - box ' and not as totalising theory , able to explain everything , but rather as a fragmentary theory which is descriptive of changing contexts , and therefore subject itself to change and re - evaluation.7 His ...
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... reader : ' . . . is of course , free to make what he [ sic ] will of the book he has been kind enough to read . What right have I then to suggest that it should be used in one way rather than another ? ' ( Foucault , 1973b : ix ) ...
... reader : ' . . . is of course , free to make what he [ sic ] will of the book he has been kind enough to read . What right have I then to suggest that it should be used in one way rather than another ? ' ( Foucault , 1973b : ix ) ...
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