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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... represented in a wide variety of different ways. For example, it can be considered as safe or dangerous, it can be represented as having major commercial benefits or as being an obstacle which has to be overcome, it can be represented ...
... represented in a wide variety of different ways. For example, it can be considered as safe or dangerous, it can be represented as having major commercial benefits or as being an obstacle which has to be overcome, it can be represented ...
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... represented by parallel lines in the projection . * Secondly , an original line which is parallel † to the plane of projection is represented by a line of the same ( i.e. of its real ) length , in the projection . Thirdly , it may ...
... represented by parallel lines in the projection . * Secondly , an original line which is parallel † to the plane of projection is represented by a line of the same ( i.e. of its real ) length , in the projection . Thirdly , it may ...
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... representing Islam. To place these complexities within the matrices of power, the correct questions should follow. Who can represent Islam? How is Islam represented? Can musicians represent Islam? Can women or, for that matter, female ...
... representing Islam. To place these complexities within the matrices of power, the correct questions should follow. Who can represent Islam? How is Islam represented? Can musicians represent Islam? Can women or, for that matter, female ...
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... represented by the two sides AB and BC of a triangle taken in order , they are equivalent to a velocity represented by AC . For , completing the parallelogram ABCD , the lines AB and BC represent the same velocities as AB and AD and ...
... represented by the two sides AB and BC of a triangle taken in order , they are equivalent to a velocity represented by AC . For , completing the parallelogram ABCD , the lines AB and BC represent the same velocities as AB and AD and ...
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... represented by BC to act by itself for one second , the velocity generated by it in that interval is represented by BC ; and compounding this with the original velocity AB of the moving point , it follows from the parallelogram of ...
... represented by BC to act by itself for one second , the velocity generated by it in that interval is represented by BC ; and compounding this with the original velocity AB of the moving point , it follows from the parallelogram of ...
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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.