Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and ColonialismPsychology Press, 1993 - 232 pages This book provides a useful entry into the field of travel writing from a feminist perspective which combines Foucault with postcolonialist theory. The point of departure are the narratives produced by British women who, during the mid nineteenth to early twentieth century, traveled to colonized countries. Mills locates their narratives within larger structures of both material and symbolic power to stress the importance of the articulations of travel, gender and sexuality within travel culture: women paid attention to different things than men and had different expectations of themselves and of the `natives' while abroad. Much of this is familiar ground, but it is interesting to see how the author takes well-known female accounts such as Mary Kingsley's and reads them not as eccentric products but as part of a broader discourse about gender, colonialism, and travel experience. |
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... Female Sexualisation : The most unsettling contention of ' discourse theory ' from a feminist point of view was that the categories hitherto deployed by cultural analysts as ' givens ' class , gender , race , generation and so on - were ...
... Female Sexualisation : The most unsettling contention of ' discourse theory ' from a feminist point of view was that the categories hitherto deployed by cultural analysts as ' givens ' class , gender , race , generation and so on - were ...
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... females . Foucault notes : power is not constructed on the basis of ' wills ' ( individual or collective ) , no more than it is derived from interests .. .. This is not to say that power is independent , or that it could be deciphered ...
... females . Foucault notes : power is not constructed on the basis of ' wills ' ( individual or collective ) , no more than it is derived from interests .. .. This is not to say that power is independent , or that it could be deciphered ...
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... female narrator travelling without protection and without coming to harm ; this seems to signal to the reader that the colonised country is so much under British control that even women can be represented travelling through it without ...
... female narrator travelling without protection and without coming to harm ; this seems to signal to the reader that the colonised country is so much under British control that even women can be represented travelling through it without ...
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Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills Aucun aperçu disponible - 1991 |
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Page 10 - I would like to show with precise examples that in analysing discourses themselves, one sees the loosening of the embrace, apparently so tight, of words and things, and the emergence of a group of rules proper to discursive practice. These rules define not the dumb existence of a reality, nor the canonical use of a vocabulary, but the ordering of objects.