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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... whilst at the same time being unable to adopt a straight- forwardly colonial voice . For a feminist reader in the 1990s , the texts are a mixture of the thoroughly enjoyable ( adventure narratives depicting strong , resourceful , women ...
... whilst at the same time being unable to adopt a straight- forwardly colonial voice . For a feminist reader in the 1990s , the texts are a mixture of the thoroughly enjoyable ( adventure narratives depicting strong , resourceful , women ...
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... whilst at the same time , because of the discursive frameworks which exert pressure on female writers , there may be negotiations in women's texts which result in differences which seem to be due to gender . I want to take these texts ...
... whilst at the same time , because of the discursive frameworks which exert pressure on female writers , there may be negotiations in women's texts which result in differences which seem to be due to gender . I want to take these texts ...
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... ' autobiographical ' . This labelling should be seen as an attempt to deny women the status of creators of cultural artefacts . However , the analysis is still further complicated by the fact that , whilst labelled ' 12 INTRODUCTION.
... ' autobiographical ' . This labelling should be seen as an attempt to deny women the status of creators of cultural artefacts . However , the analysis is still further complicated by the fact that , whilst labelled ' 12 INTRODUCTION.
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... whilst labelled ' factual ' , doubts are frequently cast on the truthfulness of women's accounts . This is especially the case in women's travel writing , where their texts are subject to accusations of exaggeration and falsehood . Thus ...
... whilst labelled ' factual ' , doubts are frequently cast on the truthfulness of women's accounts . This is especially the case in women's travel writing , where their texts are subject to accusations of exaggeration and falsehood . Thus ...
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