Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism

ISBN-13: 9780415046299 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 244 str.

Sara Mills;Mills Sara

Opis

Discourses of Difference unravels the complexities of writings by British women travellers of the high colonial period. Sara Mills' broad-based study draws on the work of Foucault and of theorists of colonialism such as Edward Said, Mary Louise Pratt and Gayatri Spivak to produce a new theoretical framework for the analysis of these texts, and of others written during the period. Mills argues that critics have paid insufficient attention to issues of gender, and have failed to consider the context in which texts by women were written and received. Through the case studies of three women travellers - Alexandra David-Neel, Mary Kingsley and Nina Mazuchelli - she charts both the variety and the shared features in women's travel writing, suggesting that, although these women wrote from within the colonial system, they produced alternative accounts of the imperial presence in colonized countries.

Recenzje

`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

Spis treści

Acknowledgements, INTRODUCTION, Part I Critical Responses to Women’s Travel Writing, Part II Constraints on Production and Reception, Part III Case Studies, Notes, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Sara Mills