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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... truths ' of British rule without qualification . Because of their oppressive socialisation and marginal position in relation to imperialism , despite their generally privileged class position , women writers tended to concentrate on ...
... truths ' of British rule without qualification . Because of their oppressive socialisation and marginal position in relation to imperialism , despite their generally privileged class position , women writers tended to concentrate on ...
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... truth of utterances ) ' ( C. Gordon , 1979 : 34 ) . Thus , it is not necessary to read travel writing as expressing the truth of the author's life , but rather , it is the result of a configuration of discursive structures with which ...
... truth of utterances ) ' ( C. Gordon , 1979 : 34 ) . Thus , it is not necessary to read travel writing as expressing the truth of the author's life , but rather , it is the result of a configuration of discursive structures with which ...
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... truth claims . It is in the analysis of statements that it is possible to trace women writers ' ambivalence in their position in relation to power . Secondly , Foucault's concern with the surface of discourse is 10 INTRODUCTION.
... truth claims . It is in the analysis of statements that it is possible to trace women writers ' ambivalence in their position in relation to power . Secondly , Foucault's concern with the surface of discourse is 10 INTRODUCTION.
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... 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 ' ; what is dis ...
... 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 ' ; what is dis ...
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... 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 wholesale . It should be stressed that using theory ...
... 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 wholesale . It should be stressed that using theory ...
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