Sara Mills

Broschiertes Buch

Discourses of Difference

An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Sara Mills

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• 1993.
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 317g
• ISBN-13: 9780415096645
• ISBN-10: 0415096642
• Artikelnr.: 21973554

Rezensionen

`Evinces a keen awareness of the constraints governing the production and reception of women's travel writing. Mills's approach, [a combination of Marxism, feminism, and Foucaudianism], shines through...and is capable of generating highly suggestive cultural analyses.' - Times Higher Educational Supplement

`Evinces a keen awareness of the constraints governing the production and reception of women's travel writing. Mills's approach, [a combination of Marxism, feminism, and Foucaudianism], shines through...and is capable of generating highly suggestive cultural analyses.' - Times Higher Educational Supplement