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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... simply as a bundle of re- actions to all - powerful structures , or to the social relations within which we have been formed ... [ we should ] search instead for possible indications of how we have participated actively in the formation ...
... simply as a bundle of re- actions to all - powerful structures , or to the social relations within which we have been formed ... [ we should ] search instead for possible indications of how we have participated actively in the formation ...
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... within the critical study of colonial discourse . Gender cannot simply be added to colonial discourse theories ; the theories themselves need to be reconsidered in the light of feminist analyses . In the 19 INTRODUCTION.
... within the critical study of colonial discourse . Gender cannot simply be added to colonial discourse theories ; the theories themselves need to be reconsidered in the light of feminist analyses . In the 19 INTRODUCTION.
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... simply as autobiographies , but must be read as textual constructs emanating from a range of discourses in conflict.16 I focus on three texts : Alexandra David - Neel , My Journey to Lhasa ( 1927/1983 ) ; Mary Kingsley's Travels in West ...
... simply as autobiographies , but must be read as textual constructs emanating from a range of discourses in conflict.16 I focus on three texts : Alexandra David - Neel , My Journey to Lhasa ( 1927/1983 ) ; Mary Kingsley's Travels in West ...
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... simply for personal reasons . As I mentioned earlier , in fact , this representation of the colonised country as a safe place for women to travel may have developed from precisely the problem of women writers describing sexual matters ...
... simply for personal reasons . As I mentioned earlier , in fact , this representation of the colonised country as a safe place for women to travel may have developed from precisely the problem of women writers describing sexual matters ...
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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.