Discourses of Difference

An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism
1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-415-09664-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 350 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mills, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Sara Mills