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Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism
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by Sara Mills
Sales Rank: 885172
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Cover Type: Paperback with 244 pages
Published by: RoutledgeEdition: 1st Edition October 25, 1993
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0415096642
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0415096645
Book Dimensions:
8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
Weighs: 12 ounces
Product Review
Discourses of Difference uncovers the many ways women travel writers have tried to deal with problems of credibility. They have played down the adventurous parts of their journeys or not reported events deemed `unfeminine. They have consciously created `womens texts, by writing in ways that allowed their books to be produced and read differently from mens travel writing. And the instability of the narrators position--particularly in books of the colonial period, as Kingsleys example demonstrates--reflects the more general contradictions and complexity of white womens relation to power.
–The Womens Review of Books
Discourses of Difference uncovers the many ways women travel writers have tried to deal with problems of credibility. They have played down the adventurous parts of their journeys or not reported events deemed `unfeminine.' They have consciously created `women's texts,' by writing in ways that allowed their books to be produced and read differently from men's travel writing. And the instability of the narrator's position--particularly in books of the colonial period, as Kingsley's example demonstrates--reflects the more general contradictions and complexity of white women's relation to power.
–The Women's Review of Books
Product Description
How did women write in the colonial period? Is there a specifically female genre of travel writing?
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 the ideas of colonialism of such cultural theorists as Edward Said, Louise Pratt, and Gayatri Spivak to produce a new thoeretical framework for the analysis of texts written during this 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 case studies of three women travellers--Alexandra David-Neel, Mary Kingsley and Nina Mazuchelli--Mills 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 colonial countries.
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This review is from: Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism (Library Binding)
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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