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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... suggest that ' very few women broke out of the domestic circle in the nineteenth century to venture into the wider world as self - acknowledged travellers ' ( Worley , 1986 : 40 ) . In contrast to Worley's view , my study revealed many 1 ...
... suggest that ' very few women broke out of the domestic circle in the nineteenth century to venture into the wider world as self - acknowledged travellers ' ( Worley , 1986 : 40 ) . In contrast to Worley's view , my study revealed many 1 ...
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... suggests that our task when reading texts from the past is to : receive the same fullness of resource from past texts as from present ... respect their difference . . . revive those shifty significations which do not pay court to our ...
... suggests that our task when reading texts from the past is to : receive the same fullness of resource from past texts as from present ... respect their difference . . . revive those shifty significations which do not pay court to our ...
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... suggests ; rather I am interested in the way that Foucault's theories , colonial discourse and feminist theories can interact to produce an analytical framework . FOUCAULT AND THE STUDY OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE In writing a book , it has ...
... suggests ; rather I am interested in the way that Foucault's theories , colonial discourse and feminist theories can interact to produce an analytical framework . FOUCAULT AND THE STUDY OF COLONIAL DISCOURSE In writing a book , it has ...
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... suggests that 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 ...
... suggests that 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 ...
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... suggest . Nevertheless , it is often difficult to find a theory which will enable you to make interest- ing and insightful statements about a text , which you would not have been able to say without the theory . In general , feminist ...
... suggest . Nevertheless , it is often difficult to find a theory which will enable you to make interest- ing and insightful statements about a text , which you would not have been able to say without the theory . In general , feminist ...
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