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

Zusatztext `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 Informationen zum Autor Sara Mills Klappentext First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Unravels the complexities of writings by British women of the `high colonial' period. Sara Mills analyses the writings of three women travellers, extending recent post-colonial and cultural theory in an important and inspiring study. 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

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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

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`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

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• Authors: Sara Mills, Sara (Sheffield Hallam University Mills, Mills Sara
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.04.1993
• EAN: 9780415096645
• ISBN: 978-0-415-09664-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Colonialism and imperialism, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls