Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and ColonialismDiscourses 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. |
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| Title | Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism |
| Author | Sara Mills |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2003 |
| ISBN | 1134947410, 9781134947416 |
| Length | 240 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General |
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