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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... feminist , there are three aspects of Foucault's work which are of particular use in the analysis of colonial writing : the notion of discourse , a concern with the surface of discourse and a critique of claims to scientificity ...
... feminist , there are three aspects of Foucault's work which are of particular use in the analysis of colonial writing : the notion of discourse , a concern with the surface of discourse and a critique of claims to scientificity ...
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... FEMINISM Since feminism is not a unitary theoretical position , it is essential to specify which elements of feminist thought I am drawing on , and how feminist the use of the work of Michel Foucault can be . Feminist literary theory ...
... FEMINISM Since feminism is not a unitary theoretical position , it is essential to specify which elements of feminist thought I am drawing on , and how feminist the use of the work of Michel Foucault can be . Feminist literary theory ...
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... feminists use their work as a theoretical base ? This book is concerned with the way that feminists can use and transform these models . Being a feminist makes one suspicious of adopting a male theoretical ' guru ' . However , in search ...
... feminists use their work as a theoretical base ? This book is concerned with the way that feminists can use and transform these models . Being a feminist makes one suspicious of adopting a male theoretical ' guru ' . However , in search ...
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... feminists like a form of infatu- ation , as Meaghan Morris has put it , like ' being screwed ' ( Morris , in Morris ... feminism appears as a parasitic discourse with no new hypotheses of its own , but simply as a feminist dimension to ...
... feminists like a form of infatu- ation , as Meaghan Morris has put it , like ' being screwed ' ( Morris , in Morris ... feminism appears as a parasitic discourse with no new hypotheses of its own , but simply as a feminist dimension to ...
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... feminist theory , much as male appro- priations are considered to be theories themselves.14 Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby consider that the con- vergence of Foucault's work and feminism can be productive : Both identify the body as the ...
... feminist theory , much as male appro- priations are considered to be theories themselves.14 Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby consider that the con- vergence of Foucault's work and feminism can be productive : Both identify the body as the ...
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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.